Re: [PATCH 1/2] Teach git-describe to display distances from tags.

From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 26, 2007, 10:36 UTC
Message-ID: <200701261036.26012.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmz4663xq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Friday 2007 January 26 00:13, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Hmph.  And an option --no-number to disable this is probably not
> worth it, as it forces the existing scripts that wants the
> tagname to be updated to pass that new option.  If the users
> need to update their scripts anyway, they can sed/expr the
> number out just as easily as passing the new option.

Actually, the more useful switch would be "--tag-only"; then

x=$(git-describe HEAD | sed 's/-g*//')

In scripts could become

x=$(git-describe --tag-only HEAD)

Then, the suffix can be anything we want, and can change in the future without affecting these scripts.

Andy

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