git describe: inexplicable commit count
问题 Consider this excerpt of git log --oneline --decorate --graph : * 552485a (HEAD -> master, origin/master) Finish v0.8.4 |\ | * c198066 (tag: v0.8.4) some commit message * | 343af72 Finish v0.8.3 |\ \ | |/ | * 0267e30 (tag: v0.8.3) some commit message * | 8f0ff57 some commit message |\ \ | |/ ... (NB: the tag v0.8.4 is on a commit from branch 'develop') How comes that when I run git describe I get this: v0.8.4-16-g552485a that is, git counts 16 commits since tag v0.8.4. I'd expect it to return