Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> skriver:

> * guix/git.scm (resolve-reference): Use REVPARSE-SINGLE for looking up
> commits.  Rewrite tag-or-commit case to recognize 'git describe' style
> identifiers and resolve them as commits.

I realize we can do this without resorting to 'revparse-single', which
does essentially the same as this procedure.  We just have to extract
the short commit from the describe string.  New patch attached: