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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux fatal: cannot describe <sha1>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 22:09:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080701200951.GB10677@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0807011817230.20393@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 06:20:17PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Just a note that when you run git-describe, you should probably quiten it.
> 
> fatal: cannot describe 'bd7364a0fd5a4a2878fe4a224be1b142a4e6698e'
> 
> This happens when tags are not present, which can happen if Linus's tree 
> is sent upwards again, IOW:
> 
>  machine1$  git-clone torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>  machine1$  git push elsewhere master
> 
>  machine2$  git-clone elsewhere:/linux
>  machine2$  git-describe HEAD
>  fatal: cannot describe that

Hi Jan.

Any specific reason why you sent it to me?
Maybe because I do not use git describe at all?

	Sam


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01 16:20 Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-01 20:09 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-07-01 22:18   ` Sebastian Siewior
2008-07-05 12:58     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-06 21:13       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-06 21:34     ` Sam Ravnborg

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