Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: enhance git describe --tags help

From: Uwe Kleine-König <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:56:41 +0200

Hello,

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 08:01:27AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> --tags::
> 	If a lightweight tag exactly matches, output it.  If no
> 	annotated tag is found in the ancestry but a lightweight
> 	tag is found, output the lightweight tag.
IMHO --tags should behave as Erez expected (because it's what I
expected, too).  As --tags currently behaves it's only usable in very
rare cases (most of the time it only makes a difference on repos without
any annotated tag).

When do you pass --tags?  Only if a lightweight tag is OK for an answer.
And then I would prefer a "near" lightweight tag to a "farer" annotated
one.

Best regards
Uwe