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Mysterous git describe
$ git describe
v3.08.00-1339-g8ba2c8a
$ git log --oneline --decorate --color -5
8ba2c8a (HEAD, current) Add robots txt file to deny all bots
5d92ab3 (tag: v3.10.00) Adding 3.10 release notes
e261ec3 Bumping version to 3.10.0 and adding sponsors that are were not already written
f41cd9e Merge remote-tracking branch 'tamil/3.10.0-translate' into 3.10.xb
4fd58d8 Bug 9018 Italian translation of ccsr.po
# describe tells me tag "v3.08.00" is the last one
# but git history tells me describe is wrong
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