Thank you for the response.
Just wanted to know is there any way i can get the previous tag details.
On 13 August 2018 at 18:47, Konstantin Khomoutov <kos...@bswap.ru> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 05:23:53AM -0700, sshobha...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> [...]
> > when i try to execute the below command it throws me an error
> >
> > $git describe --abbrev=0 --tags $(`git rev-list --tags --skip-count=1
> > --max-count=1`)
> > Error: fece0ddf3d4ef9b61640b5ae4c3c5f0e3abaf326: command not found.
> [...]
>
> When your shell sees a `...` construct, it takes the text between the
> backticks, executes it as a comand and replaces the source text and the
> backticks with the output that command sent to its standard output
> stream. For the `git rev-list` command, this is the SHA-1 name of a
> commmit.
>
> When the shell sees a $(...) construct, it does with the text between
> the opening "$(" and the closing ")" and treats it almost the same way
> it does for the `...` construct (the exact differences are of no
> interest here).
>
> So what happens here is that you ask the shell to interpret the SHA-1
> name of a commit found by the `git rev-list` command as another command.
> There is no point doing that.
>
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