Thomas Koeller wrote: > 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: [snip] > 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. Not really, it can happen if the commit you're trying to describe and all of its parents are not tagged. > Has anybody got a clue as to what may be wrong here? Is the commit originally part of Linus' tree and was pulled later by Ralf ? If so, it probably means that the commits committed by Ralf in his tree, which are the tagged ones, have no relationship with the ones pulled from Linus. Franck
