Re: git problem

[Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Back to the original topic - git describe fails even with some of the
> very old commits of the lmo tree which are known to be tagged so there
> is something wrong.

Your issue seems different from Thomas' one. In your case:

        $ git cat-file -t refs/tags/linux-1.3.0
        commit

So the tag you mentioned is a _lightweight_ tag. These are not
considered by git-describe by default.

To make git-describe work, just do:

        $ git describe --tags $(cat .git/refs/tags/linux-1.3.0)
        linux-1.3.0

                Franck