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 18:05:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8C4+cj=K2NetC05rmwenY0cArQ7NehZZ+Df90fmzBVThA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dbd2dcef-c892-3628-119e-f688e74f3599@highlab.com>
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.
>
> > it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top
> > of the tagged object
>
>
> And:
>
> > If multiple tags were found during the walk then the tag which has
> > the fewest commits different from the input commit-ish will be
> > selected and output. Here fewest commits different is defined as the
> > number of commits which would be shown by git log tag..input will be
> > the smallest number of commits possible.
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-25 16:06 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 [this message]
2018-09-25 16:10 ` Duy Nguyen
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