git-describe

I have tagged my repository with the tag "Release_V1.0.0.4". But here is what I got from "git describe" and "git describe origin". [root pds_series]# git describe Release_V1.0.0.2-22-g0859de9 [root pds_series]# git describe origin Release_V1.0.0.2-18-gce2b24c With "git describe --all" and "git describe --tags" I got the right tag. [root pds_series]# git describe --all tags/Release_v1.0.0.4 [root pds_series]# git describe --tags Release_v1.0.0.4 Also, with following command I got the right tag. [root pds_series]# git log --pretty=format:'%ad %h %d' --abbrev-commit --date=short -1 2012-11-15

I have a git commit with 2 tags, like this: commit1-----tagA,tagB Checkout "tagA" by git checkout tagA Question: How to get the tag name of current checkout? I have try git describe , but it's always return name "tagB", expect return "tagA". Seems git describe only be able to return the most recent tag name, see from git manual The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit. If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is shown. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object and the abbreviated object name of

I have just discovered the --dirty option to git describe and it looks like it should do something very useful, i.e. append a suffix to the output of git describe when the working tree is dirty, however that doesn't seem to be the case on some of my repositories: $ git status # On branch 8.30 nothing to commit (working directory clean) $ git describe --dirty 8.30rel-8-g9c1cbdb-dirty I thought this might be because the working directory is dirty relative to the tag , but that doesn't seem to be the case either: $ git status # On branch 1.4 nothing to commit (working directory clean) $ git

In the following lines: $ git tag -n1 v1.8 Tagged the day before yesterday v1.9 Tagged yesterday v2.0 Tagged today $ git describe v1.9-500-ga6a8c67 $ Can anyone explain why the v2.0 tag is not used by "git describe", and how to fix this? The v2.0 tag is already pushed, so I am guessing that I can't just delete and re-add it. git describe uses only annotated tags by default. specify the --tags option to make it use lightweight tags as well make sure you've checked out the correct commit ( git rev-parse HEAD ). annotated tags are created with git tag -a . if you do git show <tagname> and you see