Hello all, Looking for suggestions on how to determine the tag that was used to checkout a git repo to its associated commit, particularly in the case where multiple tags might point to the same commit.
I've had a look at git-name-rev and git-describe, and both seem useful so long as there's only one tag pointing to the commit of interest. However, I'm still coming up to speed on their behavior in the multiple tag case (mainly by experimentation). It seems to me that when checking out to a tag, Git does not record the *name* of the tag anywhere, but rather sets HEAD to the de-referenced commit SHA-1. As far as I can tell, it is not possible to recover the original name of the tag in the case of multiple tags on the same commit. Is my conclusion correct? The reason I ask is that we have a build environment where it is likely that multiple tags will get set by various groups in our main 'truth' Git repo. We are using some scripting that would like to know the *name* of the tag used for checkout (this has been working well for us so far as long as we checkout against branches). Is there perhaps some other means of doing a checkout to tag that DOES record the name of the tag? If not, I imagine we might need some external means to record the checked out tag, which is not out of the question. Regards, Jesse -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html