Avoid noise during builds:
> fatal: No annotated tags can describe '417449f468c4ba186954f6295b3338fb55ee7b4a'.
> However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags.
This might be useful in general, but is expected to not happen - and
falling back is OK then. The fallback command would still display
errors then.
It also uses `--first-parent`, which is important for when a release
branch gets merged back.