describe --contains: default to HEAD when no commit-ish is given

'git describe --contains' doesn't default to HEAD when no commit is
given, and it doesn't produce any output, not even an error:

~/src/git ((v2.5.0))$ ./git describe --contains
~/src/git ((v2.5.0))$ ./git describe --contains HEAD
v2.5.0^0

Unlike other 'git describe' options, the '--contains' code path is
implemented by calling 'name-rev' with a bunch of options plus all the
commit-ishes that were passed to 'git describe'.  If no commit-ish was
present, then 'name-rev' got invoked with none, which then leads to the
behavior illustrated above.

Porcelain commands usually default to HEAD when no commit-ish is given,
and 'git describe' already does so in all other cases, so it should do
so with '--contains' as well.

Pass HEAD to 'name-rev' when no commit-ish is given on the command line
to make '--contains' behave consistently with other 'git describe'
options.  While at it, use argv_array_pushv() instead of the loop to
pass commit-ishes to 'git name-rev'.

'git describe's short help already indicates that the commit-ish is
optional, but the synopsis in the man page doesn't, so update it
accordingly as well.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index d20ca402a11d29cb35efa9d291755c4f9f08bf21..363e50151106d1863a174c902c4d42ab2a1beb54 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] <commit-ish>...
+'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] [<commit-ish>...]
 'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] --dirty[=<mark>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ see the -a and -s options to linkgit:git-tag[1].
 OPTIONS
 -------
 <commit-ish>...::
-       Commit-ish object names to describe.
+       Commit-ish object names to describe.  Defaults to HEAD if omitted.
 
 --dirty[=<mark>]::
        Describe the working tree.

diff --git a/builtin/describe.c b/builtin/describe.c
index 24d740c8b1705f9c8993bd808c9a618acecc300c..d06673a37821e0716919f7e68d47d596f57792f6 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/describe.c
+++ b/builtin/describe.c
@@ -451,10 +451,10 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                        if (pattern)
                                argv_array_pushf(&args, "--refs=refs/tags/%s", pattern);
                }
-               while (*argv) {
-                       argv_array_push(&args, *argv);
-                       argv++;
-               }
+               if (argc)
+                       argv_array_pushv(&args, argv);
+               else
+                       argv_array_push(&args, "HEAD");
                return cmd_name_rev(args.argc, args.argv, prefix);
        }
 

diff --git a/t/t6120-describe.sh b/t/t6120-describe.sh
index c0e5b2a6275df2d92172327b2d629cc73720423e..85f269411cb3aed461f6894dc5d1cc780debc24b 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t6120-describe.sh
+++ b/t/t6120-describe.sh
@@ -113,6 +113,14 @@ check_describe A-3-* --long HEAD^^2
 check_describe c-7-* --tags
 check_describe e-3-* --first-parent --tags
 
+test_expect_success 'describe --contains defaults to HEAD without commit-ish' '
+       echo "A^0" >expect &&
+       git checkout A &&
+       test_when_finished "git checkout -" &&
+       git describe --contains >actual &&
+       test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 : >err.expect
 check_describe A --all A^0
 test_expect_success 'no warning was displayed for A' '