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   a problem.  As long as you do it conciously and realize what this means for
   finishing those branches later on.
 
+* **Why does git-describe not work for me?**  
+  When finishing release and hotfix branches, that branch's HEAD is first
+  merged into `master` and then into `develop`.  It is not the resulting new
+  merge commit from `master` that is merged back into `develop`.  This means
+  that a linear path from the new `develop` branch to the new `master` commit
+  is not created.  Even worse, a linear path is created from the new `develop`
+  branch to the *previous* `master` commit.  Although unintended, this is
+  simply an effect of using the current branching rules.
+
+  When using `git-describe` in these cases, you can get very confusing and
+  misleading results, since `git-describe` scans the current commits linear
+  history for the most recent tag it finds, which will always be the *previous*
+  tag.
+
+  I will change this behaviour in the next version of the branching model
+  explicitly and I will include this behavioural change in the first version of
+  the Python rewrite.
+
+  For more references to this problem, see:
+
+  - Issue [#49](http://github.com/nvie/gitflow/issues/49)
+  - These
+  	[two](http://groups.google.com/group/gitflow-users/browse\_thread/thread/9920a7df3d1c4908/0bb18a0bf7275ad6#0bb18a0bf7275ad6)
+  	[discussions](http://groups.google.com/group/gitflow-users/browse\_thread/thread/19efac724bb6418a)
+	on the [git-flow-users](http://groups.google.com/group/gitflow-users)
+	mailinglist.
+
 * **I'm getting errors when I use flags with git-flow!**  
   `git-flow` uses the [shFlags](http://code.google.com/p/shflags/) library to
   provide platform independent flag parsing (using wichever low-level flag