Re: "git describe" documentation and behavior mismatch

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89@googlemail.com> writes:

> 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 suspect that "see if the name recorded in the tag object matches
the name of the ref that stores the tag after refs/tags/" code *is*
not just verifying what it claims to (which may be good) but also
unintentionally affecting the output (i.e. "--all" promises that the
prefix tags/ should be shown).  Perhaps the code needs to be fixed
if that is the case.