From: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89@googlemail.com>
To: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "git describe" documentation and behavior mismatch
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:26:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACx-yZ1dJuUj5mD6WE8yqZCPMK8q-yaJ0GKUSppZ7uDkqvJ5UA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACx-yZ10GiDT=dDeF1EUtM_K4nGd414SDfxLRqGWyXt0ub02Gg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Daniel Knittl-Frank
<knittl89@googlemail.com> wrote:
> […]
>
> Running the above commands in the git.git repository yields a different result:
>
>> $ git describe --all --abbrev=4 v1.0.5^2
>> v1.0.0-21-g975b3
>
> No "reference path" to see. It is however shown, when the output is a
> branch name:
>
>> $ git describe --all --abbrev=4 origin/next
>> heads/next
>
> Is this expected behavior? IOW is the documentation outdated or is the
> git describe command misbehaving?
Bisecting history goes as far back as Feb 2008: commit
212945d4a85dfa172ea55ec73b1d830ef2d8582f
> Teach git-describe to verify annotated tag names before output
The warning mentioned in the commit message has since been gone. So I
guess the documentation is outdated? Nobody has complained for the
past 9 years, so we could call this a "feature" :)
An interesting fact (and intentional behavior?) is that describing a
commit with only a lightweight tag will properly display the tags/
prefix. I assume this is because the annotated tags only store the
tagname without any ref namespace, which is then picked up by git
describe and displayed.
I will try to come up with a patch for the man page.
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-30 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-30 18:47 "git describe" documentation and behavior mismatch Daniel Knittl-Frank
2017-11-30 19:26 ` Daniel Knittl-Frank [this message]
2017-12-03 5:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-12-11 18:34 ` Daniel Knittl-Frank
2017-12-11 18:37 ` Daniel Knittl-Frank
2017-12-15 19:25 ` Junio C Hamano
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