kexec-tools git tree is tagged incorrectly?

[Américo Wang]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:04:06AM +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Américo,
>> >
>> > I'm not sure that I understand your question, but
>> > 920f4ededd9627add3ca1cdea965d204f2ca43a7 is the HEAD of the master
>> > (development) branch.  And unless I am mistaken, it is a descendent of v2.0.2.
>> >
>>
>> Yeah, so `git describe HEAD` should show v2.0.2-BLAHBLAH, not
>> v1.101-618-g920f4ed, right?
>
> Yes, I think so. I'm rather unsure why it isn't.
> However, the following does seem to give a result more in line with
> expectations.
>
> $ git describe --tags HEAD
> v2.0.2-94-g920f4ed
>

For linux kernel, they are the same...

[wangcong at cr0]~/linux-2.6% git describe --tag
v3.2-rc1-306-g7f80850
[wangcong at cr0]~/linux-2.6% git describe
v3.2-rc1-306-g7f80850

I am wondering why it is different for kexec-tools...

Thanks.