On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:04:06AM +0800, Am?rico Wang wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Am?rico, >> > >> > I'm not sure that I understand your question, but >> > 920f4ededd9627add3ca1cdea965d204f2ca43a7 is the HEAD of the master >> > (development) branch. ?And unless I am mistaken, it is a descendent of v2.0.2. >> > >> >> Yeah, so `git describe HEAD` should show v2.0.2-BLAHBLAH, not >> v1.101-618-g920f4ed, right? > > Yes, I think so. I'm rather unsure why it isn't. > However, the following does seem to give a result more in line with > expectations. > > $ git describe --tags HEAD > v2.0.2-94-g920f4ed > For linux kernel, they are the same... [wangcong at cr0]~/linux-2.6% git describe --tag v3.2-rc1-306-g7f80850 [wangcong at cr0]~/linux-2.6% git describe v3.2-rc1-306-g7f80850 I am wondering why it is different for kexec-tools... Thanks.