Hi, on my machine I have clones of both the linux-mips and Linus' kernel tree. I recently found that git-describe behaves differently in those trees: bash-3.2$ cd linux-2.6.git/ bash-3.2$ git-status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) bash-3.2$ git-describe bd71c182d5a02337305fc381831c11029dd17d64 v2.6.21-2747-gbd71c18 bash-3.2$ cd ../excite.git/ bash-3.2$ git-status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) bash-3.2$ git-describe bd71c182d5a02337305fc381831c11029dd17d64 fatal: cannot describe 'bd71c182d5a02337305fc381831c11029dd17d64' The commit is of course present in both trees. AFAIK the 'cannot describe' error shows if there are no tags at all, but this is not the case; .git/refs/tags is fully populated. Has anybody got a clue as to what may be wrong here? -- Thomas Koeller thomas at koeller dot dyndns dot org
