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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, rhi@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe: output tag's ref instead of embedded name
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 01:00:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200221060029.GF1280313@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsgj47l0k.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 06:05:15PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br> writes:
> 
> >> > Another case that came to my mind is when the user runs `git describe
> >> > --abrev=0 HEAD` and v1.0-bob points to HEAD~. In this case, v1.0 will
> >> > be displayed without suffix,...
> >>
> >> In this case, v1.0-1- is followed by the full object name, I think.
> >
> > I might be doing something wrong, but this is how I tried to test this:...
> 
> I only tried the commit exactly at the tag "describe --abbrev=0 v1.0-bob^0";
> you're right---the "abbrev" option strips the suffix in a separate codepath.
> 
> > Then we cannot directly use the output. I think we can fix this forcing the long
> > output for this case as well, which can be done with:
> 
> Thanks for a quick fix on top.

This fix makes sense. There's already a bit of ambiguity with
--no-abbrev, as it would output v1.0-1-g1234abcd as just "v1.0". But it
probably is best to draw the line here and not introduce even more
ambiguity.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-21  6:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-05 14:13 git-describe --tags warning: 'X' is really 'Y' here Roland Hieber
2020-02-05 17:15 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-02-14  6:53   ` Jeff King
2020-02-14 16:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-15 21:34       ` [PATCH] describe: output tag's ref instead of embedded name Matheus Tavares
2020-02-16  6:51         ` Jeff King
2020-02-18 19:31           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-18 19:54             ` Jeff King
2020-02-18 23:05               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-18 23:28                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-19  1:57                   ` Jeff King
2020-02-19  3:22                     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-19  3:56                       ` Jeff King
2020-02-19 11:14                         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-20 11:25                           ` Jeff King
2020-02-20 17:34                             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-20 22:19                               ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-02-20 22:59                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-21  1:33                                   ` Matheus Tavares
2020-02-21  2:05                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-02-21  6:00                                       ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-02-21  5:58                               ` Jeff King
2020-02-19 10:08                       ` Roland Hieber

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