Re: [PATCH 0/2] git describe --first-parent

2012-09-11 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael J Gruber writes: > While "git describe" behaves as documented, the notion of "most recent tag" > is not really easy to grab, and it's not always the way you want to describe > a commit. > > "--first-parent" is the option which answers the question: Which is the > most recent tag on this b

[PATCH 0/2] git describe --first-parent

2012-09-11 Thread Michael J Gruber
While "git describe" behaves as documented, the notion of "most recent tag" is not really easy to grab, and it's not always the way you want to describe a commit. "--first-parent" is the option which answers the question: Which is the most recent tag on this branch which can be reached from this c