Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Michael Dressel wrote: > > > So far git describe --match <pattern> would apply the <pattern> only > > to tag objects not to soft tags. > > And I thought that was what --tags was for. Yes. However there is a bug in git-describe's implementation; --match only tested on annotated tags. The test was buried inside of the block that handles the annotated case. Michael's patch pulls this test outside where it can apply to lightweight tags when --tags is included on the command line. -- Shawn. -- 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