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Re: [RFC PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: set --abbrev=9 to match auto-scaling

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Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Date
Dec 6, 2016, 20:43 UTC
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On 06/12/16 18:26, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:17:55AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> Yup, that is what I meant to say with "that is already possible" and
>> we are on the same page.  As all three of us seem to be happy with
>> just dropping --abbrev and letting describe do its default thing (as
>> configured by whoever is doing the build), let's do so.
>>
>> -- >8 --
>> From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
>> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 20:45:59 +0000
>> Subject: [PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: do not force abbreviation length used by 'describe'
> 
> Thanks, this is a nice summary of the discussion, and the patch is
> obviously correct.

Yep, looks very good to me! (I had started to write a commit message for this patch, when your email arrived. Needless to say, but your message is much better than mine!)

Thanks!

ATB, Ramsay Jones

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  1. GIT-VERSION-GEN: set --abbrev=9 to match auto-scalingRamsay Jones, Dec 4, 2016
  2. Jeff KingDec 5, 2016
  3. Ramsay JonesDec 5, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2016
  5. Ramsay JonesDec 5, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2016
  7. Ramsay JonesDec 5, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 5, 2016
  9. Jeff KingDec 6, 2016
  10. Junio C HamanoDec 6, 2016
  11. Jeff KingDec 6, 2016
  12. Ramsay JonesDec 6, 2016

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