git describe fails with “fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.”

Question

I\'m using git 1.7.1 on Ubuntu 10.10 amd64, and I\'m trying to extract the hash of my repository HEAD to use it in an automated version information that I compile into my pr

Answer 1

I had the similar issue while working on a CI job, the issue was git clone or checkout scm used did not fetch tags while cloning the repo.

Fetching without tags Fetching upstream changes from https://github.**********

You can enable fetch tags by selecting "Advanced clone behaviours" and then clicking on fetch tags ..