Where are my git tags?

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My Android CircleCi project needs access to existing git tags to apply the correct version number to build artifacts. But it cannot find them, even after I added git fetch --tags to circle.yml.

Here’s an ssh transcript from the build machine showing the problem

$ git rev-parse HEAD
0038d1deef46f18e89ec8a0d7449eb0a559dde00
$ git rev-parse --verify 2.0.0-alpha 
dd5b8c764a0c819bea7fb6d1f03483ea67f3a136
$ git describe --tags
fatal: No tags can describe '0038d1deef46f18e89ec8a0d7449eb0a559dde00'.
Try --always, or create some tags.

In the same SSH session, if I clone from github to another subfolder, it works fine and git describe --tags finds the tag, no problem.

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This was broken because CircleCi does a “shallow” fetch by default. To make sure I get the full git history including any tags that might be necessary, I had to add the following command to my circle.yml:

test:
  override:
    - git fetch --unshallow
    (etc...)

If you’re using lightweight tags you may also need a git fetch --tags line.

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Im in a similar position, where my python package depends on git tags for version information, and had trouble getting CircleCI to deploy correctly to PyPI. Adding this to my circle.yml fixed it:

checkout:
  post:
    - git fetch --tags && git tag
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