Barebox 'git describe' strangeness

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Sascha,

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:47:39AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:28:22AM +0200, Eric Bénard wrote:
> > 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 ?)
> 
> No, they are not. Sorry, I'm still learning git...
> 
> I will fix this from the next release on.

I've posted a patch adding --tags to 'git describe'. This should fix the 
problem for older tags.

Thanks Eric.

baruch

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