Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote: > Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >> If the caller supplies --tags they want the lightweight, unannotated >> tags to be searched for a match. If a lightweight tag is closer >> in the history, it should be matched, even if an annotated tag is >> reachable further back in the commit chain. >> >> The same applies with --all when matching any other type of ref. >> > > In 99% of the cases, "--all" will then give back the currently > checked out branch unless a revision is specified, right? Yup. `git describe --all` or `git describe --all HEAD` would kick back the current branch you have checked out, assuming you have a real branch under refs/heads and not some detached HEAD. IMHO, that's what the user asked for. -- 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
