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| author | Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> | |
| Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:10:06 +0000 (23:10 +0100) | ||
| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | |
| Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:45:24 +0000 (16:45 -0700) | ||
| commit | 4d23660e79dbbb7e2ae37cb7193166d085a78502 | |
| tree | 36adf863ee02414255a4a5b1570202ff176f721e | tree | snapshot |
| parent | cd0f8e6d63d3e2744d7d3b2329238be7d064a8ea | commit | diff |
describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work
Users seem to call git-describe without reading the manpage, and then
wonder why it doesn't work with unannotated tags by default.
Make a minimal effort towards seeing if there would have been
unannotated tags, and tell the user. Specifically, we say that --tags
could work if we found any unannotated tags. If not, we say that
--always would have given results.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Users seem to call git-describe without reading the manpage, and then
wonder why it doesn't work with unannotated tags by default.
Make a minimal effort towards seeing if there would have been
unannotated tags, and tell the user. Specifically, we say that --tags
could work if we found any unannotated tags. If not, we say that
--always would have given results.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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