Re: Regarding the determinacy of 'git describe'

2015-01-19 Thread Andreas Krey
On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:29:17 +, Andreas Krey wrote: ... === /tmp/tmp-ws-20150116-11355-v7zfcc searching to describe HEAD lightweight4 r2.4/bl-0 lightweight4 r2.4/bl-1 traversed 5 commits r2.4/bl-0-4-g689e350 Apparently, this comes because two of the commit have the

Regarding the determinacy of 'git describe'

2015-01-16 Thread Andreas Krey
Hi all again, today another expectation crumbled. I expected the algo of 'git describe' to be deterministic, but it happens to return different tags in structurally identical repositories. These are generated on each run of a test (and obviously have different dates and thus commit IDs), and

Re: Regarding the determinacy of 'git describe'

2015-01-16 Thread Andreas Krey
To follow up on myself, this is the output of 'git describe --debug --tags' and 'git log --oneline --decor --parents' for each of the two repos. The one irritating thing is that in two of them the inital commit is not the bottommost in the log output. To make my expectation more concrete: I