Barebox 'git describe' strangeness

[Eric Bénard]

Hi Baruch,

Le 01/07/2010 09:13, Baruch Siach a écrit :
> Hi barebox list,
>
> For some reason 'git describe' shows me:
>
> v2009.12.0-178-gdc882c3
>
> I.e. git doesn't find the more recent v2010.06.0 tag. What is worse is that
> the top-level Makefile takes the '-178-gdc882c3' part and attaches it to
> '2010.06.0', making the output of the 'version' command:
>
> barebox 2010.06.0-00178-gcc827a1 (Jul  1 2010 - 09:02:45)
>
> which is plain wrong.
>
> Can anyone here explain what's going on?
>
same thing here (the man says "By default (without --all or --tags) git 
describe only shows annotated tags." so maybe the tags after 2009.12.0 
are not annotated ?)

git describe --tags
returns : v2010.06.0-29-g9ad1fe6

Eric