Re: Move to git is imminent - awaiting Stefan's approval

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 00:01:45 +0100
> Cc: emacs <address@hidden>
> 
> Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Now trying
> >
> > $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs.git emacs.git
> >
> >
> > I don't get any revision number.. So in my future bug report how the trunk
> > will be identified?
> 
> A good way to identify a git branch is to use git describe.  However it
> prefers to have an annotated (release) tag available to base on, which
> we currently don't have

Indeed:

  $ git describe
  fatal: No annotated tags can describe 
'e1d32fe4408170b992528a2da4b917a63e86fbc4'

I think Angelo wants one of the following, which will all produce
exactly the same output:

  git log --pretty='format:%H' @^..
  git rev-list  @^..
  git rev-parse --verify HEAD