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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: seb@highlab.com
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in 'git describe'?
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:10:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8C+WWkwFjoFT+Y-Ga2ZxSbOn-OkKCyKYFU4qJfXyuJY-w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8C4+cj=K2NetC05rmwenY0cArQ7NehZZ+Df90fmzBVThA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 6:05 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:41 PM Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@highlab.com> wrote:
> > That behavior seems to me to be different from what the (2.11) manpage says:
>
> Good opportunity to improve the man page anyway even if Junio is
> right. I agree that the section about "search strategy" is a bit
> misleading because it does not mention anything about time stuff.

If anybody's updating the man page, I think this is the commit that
changed git-describe's search strategy: 80dbae03b0 (Chose better tag
names in git-describe after merges. - 2007-01-10)

--
Duy

      reply	other threads:[~2018-09-25 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-24 21:45 bug in 'git describe'? Sebastian Kuzminsky
2018-09-24 22:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-25 15:39   ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2018-09-25 16:05     ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-25 16:10       ` Duy Nguyen [this message]

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