* git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag
@ 2021-10-11 8:08 Benjamin Kircher
2021-10-11 8:23 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-10-11 12:27 ` Carlo Arenas
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Benjamin Kircher @ 2021-10-11 8:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Hello there,
What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your
issue)
git log --format='%(describe)' -n1
produces a different result than
git describe --tags
What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
I expected both to produce (roughly) the same result. At least,
reference the same tag.
What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
git log --format='%(describe)' -n1
v0.11.0
and
git log --format='%(describe)' -n1
v0.3.0-beta-253-g4ccd023
What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
git log with %(describe) placeholder does not seem to find the most
recent tag as git-describe would do. Is this intended?
[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.33.0
cpu: x86_64
no commit associated with this build
sizeof-long: 8
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
uname: Linux 5.14.10-200.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 7 20:49:53 UTC 2021
x86_64
compiler info: gnuc: 11.2
libc info: glibc: 2.33
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh
[Enabled Hooks]
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* Re: git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag
2021-10-11 8:08 git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag Benjamin Kircher
@ 2021-10-11 8:23 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-10-11 8:29 ` Benjamin Kircher
2021-10-11 12:27 ` Carlo Arenas
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Bagas Sanjaya @ 2021-10-11 8:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Benjamin Kircher, git
On 11/10/21 15.08, Benjamin Kircher wrote:
> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your
> issue)
>
> git log --format='%(describe)' -n1
>
> produces a different result than
>
> git describe --tags
>
> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
>
> I expected both to produce (roughly) the same result. At least,
> reference the same tag.
>
> What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
>
> git log --format='%(describe)' -n1
> v0.11.0
>
> and
>
> git log --format='%(describe)' -n1
> v0.3.0-beta-253-g4ccd023
>
> What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
>
> git log with %(describe) placeholder does not seem to find the most
> recent tag as git-describe would do. Is this intended?
I tried to reproduce your issue. I have linux.git shallow repo (master
branch pulls from torvalds' mainline tree and stable branches pull from
stable tree). HEAD currently points to v5.15-rc5 tag.
The result (note that I use custom-compiled Git):
```
$ /opt/git/bin/git version
git version 2.33.0
$ /opt/git/bin/git log -n 1 --format='%(describe)'
v5.15-rc5
$ /opt/git/bin/git describe --tags
v5.15-rc5
```
Both results (git log and git describe) are same.
--
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
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* Re: git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag
2021-10-11 8:08 git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag Benjamin Kircher
2021-10-11 8:23 ` Bagas Sanjaya
@ 2021-10-11 12:27 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-10-11 16:23 ` Jeff King
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Carlo Arenas @ 2021-10-11 12:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Benjamin Kircher; +Cc: git
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 1:10 AM Benjamin Kircher <bkircher@0xadd.de> wrote:
> produces a different result than
>
> git describe --tags
if the repository you are looking at has non annotated tags (the ones
that have no signature or message and that are created by default with
`git tag`), then that is expected and explained in the documentation
for the '--tags' option you are using.
Carlo
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* Re: git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag
2021-10-11 12:27 ` Carlo Arenas
@ 2021-10-11 16:23 ` Jeff King
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Jeff King @ 2021-10-11 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Carlo Arenas; +Cc: Benjamin Kircher, git
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 05:27:39AM -0700, Carlo Arenas wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 1:10 AM Benjamin Kircher <bkircher@0xadd.de> wrote:
> > produces a different result than
> >
> > git describe --tags
>
> if the repository you are looking at has non annotated tags (the ones
> that have no signature or message and that are created by default with
> `git tag`), then that is expected and explained in the documentation
> for the '--tags' option you are using.
Yes, that's the case in the example repo he showed. I don't think there
is currently a way to convince %(describe) to use "--tags" in the
underlying describe command, but it seems like a reasonable extension if
somebody is interested in writing it. We already take some options to
%(describe), so the syntax is prepared to add more.
-Peff
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