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Change release tags from lightweight to annotated
github uses lightweight tags for releases, which makes git describe
reference an earlier annotated tag unless the --tags
option is specified.
The git-tag
manpage states that releases should use annotated tags, so I'm not sure why github uses lightweight tags for this:
Annotated tags are meant for release while lightweight tags are meant for private or temporary object labels. For this reason, some git commands for naming objects (like git describe) will ignore lightweight tags by default
For example, the latest release is 1.10.0
but git describe
uses the earlier annotated tag for version 1.9.8
unless --tags
is specified:
rsh@bookworm:~/arp-scan$ git tag -l --sort=v:refname
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.9.2
1.9.3
1.9.4
1.9.5
1.9.6
1.9.7
1.9.8
1.10.0
rsh@bookworm:~/arp-scan$ git describe
1.9.8-93-g97e3b76
rsh@bookworm:~/arp-scan$ git describe --tags
1.10.0-45-g97e3b76