[OT] Re: CTFE Status

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/12/2016 11:02 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2016-11-09 20:07, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
>> Although I have my doubts it would explain all the issues I've hit upon
>> with git's CLI. For example: I don't see why annotated tags aren't the
>> default. Or why non-annotated ones even exist at all. When I made
>> <https://github.com/Abscissa/gen-package-version>, I noticed that it'll
>> *only* work if the version tags are "annotated" tags. Because otherwise
>> "git describe" doesn't retrieve the tag. Doesn't even matter one bit
>> *what* the tag's message is, just that it exists. Why? Who knows! It's
>> git!
>
> If you add the --tags flag to "describe" it will work.
>

Ok, I see (sorta). But it does work without --tags if it's an annotated 
tag. Clear as mud.

Yea, see, these are the reasons I consider git's cli to be god-awful.