Subject: Re: Annoated tag not found on git describe

From: Mathias Lafeldt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:19:46 +0200

On 10/27/2010 08:00 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> in the linux-manpages repository at 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages , running git 
> describe on the current HEAD (8482c7b836) produces
> 
> fatal: No annotated tags can describe 
> '8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b'.
> However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags.
> 
> Which seems strange, given there is an annotated tag:
> 
> (.git/refs/packed-refs)
> 45aba08f23aea4baf9ff5603cb5ec4ce148be2cc refs/tags/man-pages-3.29
> ^80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6
> 
> ==>
> object 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6
> type commit
> tag man-pages-3.29
> tagger Michael Kerrisk <[email-masked]> 1287508632 +0200
> 
> This is man-pages-3.29
> 
> commit 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6
> tree 65ca9b696771fba53902a1342dc982066c9467e0
> parent 435070082d2694737825491cc47973626f352645
> author Michael Kerrisk <[email-masked]> 1287508632 +0200
> committer Michael Kerrisk <[email-masked]> 1287508632 +0200
> 
>     Ready for 3.29
> 
> 
> 
> So what caused git 1.7.1 to get confused here?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> Jan

Hi,

must have been fixed in a later version, as it works for me:

$ git describe 
man-pages-3.29-49-g8409222

$ git --version 
git version 1.7.3.2

-Mathias