Re: please don't git describe in 0.12

Jonas Fonseca <[email protected]> Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:35:45 +0100

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Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[email protected]> wrote Fri, Feb 29, 2008:
> I think the real solution to this would be for Git to define
> a way for .git/config to _exclude_ tags from git describe.
> Then I could upgrade to the required version and set the option,
> and ELinks would not have to care about Git versions or my tags.

git describe --match "elinks-*"

       --match <pattern>
           Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid
           leaking private tags made from the repository).

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Jonas Fonseca