When "git submodule status" command tries to show the name of the submodule HEAD revision more descriptively, but the submodule repository lacked a suitable tag to do so, it leaked "fatal: cannot describe" message to the UI. Squelch it by using '--always'. Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@xxxxxxxxx> --- git-submodule.sh | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh index 56ec353..7674346 100755 --- a/git-submodule.sh +++ b/git-submodule.sh @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ set_name_rev () { cd "$1" && { git describe "$2" 2>/dev/null || git describe --tags "$2" 2>/dev/null || - git describe --contains --tags "$2" + git describe --contains --tags --always "$2" } ) ) test -z "$revname" || revname=" ($revname)" -- 1.5.5.23.g2a5f -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html