(Sorry for the broken References. I deleted the message before realising that I wanted to reply to it; and I couldn't easily find an mbox archive to snarf the whole message from.) > ~/git[master]$ git tag mb > ~/git[master]$ git describe > v1.5.6.1-156-ge903b40 > ~/git[master]$ git describe --tags > mb > ~/git[master]$ git describe --tags --long > Segmentation fault (core dumped) Not on new tags, but on un-annotated ones (which the --tags brings into consideration). The appended patch fixes the problem for me, but I'd be grateful if someone could confirm that it's the right thing to do. -- ams diff --git a/builtin-describe.c b/builtin-describe.c index 3da99c1..7ed4757 100644 --- a/builtin-describe.c +++ b/builtin-describe.c @@ -203,8 +203,12 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one) * Exact match to an existing ref. */ display_name(n); - if (longformat) - show_suffix(0, n->tag->tagged->sha1); + if (longformat) { + const unsigned char *sha1 = n->sha1; + if (n->tag) + sha1 = n->tag->tagged->sha1; + show_suffix(0, sha1); + } printf("\n"); return; } -- 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