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Oni: Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim
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Git describe is inaccurate #2693

Open Towerism opened 5 years ago

Towerism commented 5 years ago

Issue: git describe is inaccurate, because the last few tags do not point to any commits on master.

Expected behavior: git describe should describe the master branch with the latest tag (as of writing it should look like this v0.3.9-X-XXXXXXX).

Actual behavior: Instead git describe looks like this: v0.3.7-beta2-35-geefa28326

Steps to reproduce: pull from the master branch and run git describe

I am maintaining the git version of onivim on the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/onivim-git/). This makes it difficult to automate the versioning of the package.

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justinmk commented 5 years ago

One way to deal with this is to "merge" the dangling tags back into master, but revert all of their changes in the merge-commit. So the tags will be reachable from master without actually needing to bring potentially irrelevant changes into master. Although I don't know if git describe would find tags that aren't on the master "mainline".