git <tag> --fubar

[Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/14/14, 6:47 PM, Dicebot wrote:
> Ah I see. Your tag references "merged commit" but not "merge commit",
> former being implicit part of the latter when it comes to "git describe".
>
> Printing HEAD for 2.066 shows this:
>
> commit 2b795569cd892801050faec80054d91c1fb54d3c
> Merge: d84aadd 601d478
>
> As you may notice it mentions d84aadd (your v2.066-b3 tag commit) as on
> of merged parents.
>
>
> May I ask what command sequence have you used to create the tag? Doing
> this locally result in proper HEAD tag for me:
>
> git fetch upstream
> git checkout 2.066
> git tag testtag HEAD

cd dmd
git checkout 2.066
git tag -m git tag -m v2.066.0-b3 2.066
git push upstream v2.066.0-b3

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