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From:   Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
To:     Istvan Pato <istvan.pato@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Bug in 'git describe' if I have two tags on the same commit.
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 01:15:22PM +0100, Istvan Pato wrote:
> I didn't get back the latest tag by 'git describe --tags --always' if
> I have two tags on the same commit.
> 
> // repository ppa:git-core/ppa
> 
> (master)⚡ % cat /etc/lsb-release
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS"
> 
> (master)⚡ % git --version
> git version 2.11.0
> 
> (master) [1] % git show-ref --tag
> 76c634390... refs/tags/1.0.0
> b77c7cd17... refs/tags/1.1.0
> b77c7cd17... refs/tags/1.2.0
> 
> (master) % git describe --tags --always
> 1.1.0-1-ge9e9ced
> 
> ### Expected: 1.2.0
> 
> References:
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt
> 
> * "git describe" did not tie-break tags that point at the same commit
>   correctly; newer ones are preferred by paying attention to the
>   tagger date now.
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8089002/git-describe-with-two-tags-on-the-same-commit
> 
> Thanks,
> Istvan Pato

Are these lightweight tags? Only annotated tags have a date associated
to them, which is where the rel-notes refers to.