From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 08:26:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] git-repack --max-pack-size
Message-ID: <200705010926.35265.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7irt9qm1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tuesday 2007 May 01, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Which leaves 'master' right now at v1.5.2-rc1 while 'next' at
> v1.5.2-rc1-687-gcb3892c; we might want to do something about
> this apparent discrepancy.

It's perfect - I'd say that it's exactly right.

git-describe is for making unique - human readable names for points in 
history, not for describing the tree.  It makes no difference that A and B 
have the same tree, they are different points.

I've always thought of git-describe as being a way of mapping a commit hash to 
a nicer looking name.  If A and B are different commits then they should have 
different names.



Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
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