> > Thank you for the response.
> > Just wanted to know is there any way i can get the previous tag details.
>
> Let me know if you have any specific troubles interpreting the
> explanation of your problem in my original response.
Sorry, my explanation indeed skipped a crucial bit of the logic.
Please see the corrected text below.
[...]
>>>> 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).
The paragraph above instead should be:
When the shell sees a $(...) construct, it processes the text between
the opening "$(" and the closing ")" in almost the same way it does when
expanding a `...` construct (the exact differences are of no interest here).
Now I hope the following is clear:
>>> 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.
In other words, you first apply the so-called "command substitution"
using the `...` construct and then try to apply to its result - which is
a string containing a SHA-1 hash value - a slightly different form of
command substitution, which fails.
[...]
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