Re: determine name of tag used for checkout when multiple tags exist?

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 5:19 AM, John Keeping wrote: > I think it would be a reasonable enhancement to include the branch name > in the reflog message if "-b" is given to "git clone", but I'm not aware > of any (formal) policy on the format of reflog messages so relying on >

Re: determine name of tag used for checkout when multiple tags exist?

[It looks like your reply didn't get through to the mailing list, presumably because it contained a text/html part.] On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 04:22:04AM -0600, Jesse Hopkins wrote: > On Sep 4, 2015 1:54 AM, "John Keeping" wrote: > > When I checkout a tag, "git reflog -1"

Re: determine name of tag used for checkout when multiple tags exist?

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 08:53:16PM -0600, Jesse Hopkins wrote: > 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

Re: determine name of tag used for checkout when multiple tags exist?

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Jesse Hopkins wrote: > > 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

determine name of tag used for checkout when multiple tags exist?

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