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

If you came here due to this error message in Travis CI, you can use the following setting to avoid shallow clones:

git:
  depth: false

I tested git fetch --tags but that did not work.