Thanks a lot I understood the logic now.
On Aug 13, 2018 7:45 PM, "Konstantin Khomoutov" <kos...@bswap.ru> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 07:10:11PM +0530, shobha shobha wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> > > [...]
> > > > 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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