How can I change the tag given when using git describe?

Question

I want to use "git describe" to get the "revision number" of the application. Unfortunately, the git repository was created using cvs-import and has an ugly old tag, so I would like to change it.

How can I change the tag given when using "git describe"?

Note: I asked this on IRC today and found the answer myself in the end. Thought it might be useful to others too. :)

Answer 1

#create a new anotated tag because by default git describes only looks for those
git tag -a NEWTAG

#push the new tags to the remote repository
git push --tags

cf: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-describe.html

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Answer 2

git describe现在支持--match选项，该选项可以过滤将要选择的标签