Hi, I'm trying to run git-describe on the open-iscsi git tree (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mnc/open-iscsi.git): [erez.zilber@erez-lx:/tmp/open-iscsi.git]$ git-branch -a * master origin/2.0-869-bugfix origin/HEAD origin/bnx2i origin/cxgb3i origin/master [erez.zilber@erez-lx:/tmp/open-iscsi.git]$ git-describe 2.0-868-rc1-81-g31c9d42 However, there are newer tags than 2.0-868-rc1: [erez.zilber@erez-lx:/tmp/open-iscsi.git]$ git-tag 2.0-868-rc1 2.0-869 2.0-869-rc2 2.0-869-rc3 2.0-869-rc4 2.0-869.1 2.0-869.2 2.0-870-rc1 >From what I see in the man page "git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit". In this repository, it doesn't look like that... Now, I switch to the "2.0-869-bugfix" branch: [erez.zilber@erez-lx:/tmp/open-iscsi.git]$ git-checkout -b 2.0-869-bugfix origin/2.0-869-bugfix Branch 2.0-869-bugfix set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/2.0-869-bugfix. Switched to a new branch "2.0-869-bugfix" and running again git-describe: [erez.zilber@erez-lx:/tmp/open-iscsi.git]$ git-describe 2.0-868-rc1-33-g81133dd Only if I use the --tags flag, I get what I expected: [erez.zilber@erez-lx:/tmp/open-iscsi.git]$ git-describe --tags 2.0-869.2 Why is this happening? Thanks, Erez -- 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
