Hi, thank you Janneke for this report, I thought I had some problem with my working dir magit tells me I'm on "Tag: v1.3.0 (39040)" Simon Tournier writes: [...] > Oh, that’s weird! > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > $ git describe --debug > describe HEAD > No exact match on refs or tags, searching to describe > annotated 38817 v1.3.0 > annotated 38831 v1.3.0rc2 > annotated 38870 v1.3.0rc1 > annotated 55660 base-for-issue-62196 > annotated 55806 v1.2.0 > annotated 55814 v1.2.0rc2 > annotated 55837 v1.2.0rc1 > annotated 55985 v1.4.0 > annotated 55998 v1.4.0rc2 > annotated 56031 v1.4.0rc1 > traversed 56356 commits > more than 10 tags found; listed 10 most recent > gave up search at d62c9b2671be55ae0305bebfda17b595f33797f2 > v1.3.0-38817-g76b7bc5392 > > $ git rev-list --count v1.3.0..HEAD > 38817 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I have the very same (updated) results: [...] --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 0 LC_ALL=C git describe --debug describe HEAD No exact match on refs or tags, searching to describe annotated 39040 v1.3.0 annotated 39054 v1.3.0rc2 annotated 39093 v1.3.0rc1 annotated 55883 base-for-issue-62196 annotated 56029 v1.2.0 annotated 56037 v1.2.0rc2 annotated 56060 v1.2.0rc1 annotated 56208 v1.4.0 annotated 56221 v1.4.0rc2 annotated 56254 v1.4.0rc1 traversed 56579 commits more than 10 tags found; listed 10 most recent gave up search at d62c9b2671be55ae0305bebfda17b595f33797f2 v1.3.0-39040-g76b7c50645 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- (output from magit-process) [...] I'm not so expert in git, still trying to understand how to debug this strange behaviuor Happy hacking! Gio' -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures