Re: git describe origin ?

From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 8, 2007, 13:51 UTC
Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0707080651m2242b518x5313e852621db2cf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707071728330.4093@racer.site>

On 7/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Francis Moreau wrote:
>
> > I was wondering what does 'git describe origin' command mean on a git
> > repo. Does it mean ?
> >
> >    a/ git describe origin/HEAD
> >    b/ git describe origin/master
> >    c/ something else
>
> This is completely unrelated to "git describe". It is about naming
> commits AKA "specifying revisions". You might find the section "SPECIFYING
> REVISIONS" in Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt especially helpful. FWIW
> this section is hinted at in the section "Symbolic Identifiers" in
> Documentation/git.txt.
>
> If you're too lazy to read, it's a/.
>

Ok I took a look to it and I think I get the idea. But now I don't understand this example taken from "git-branch" documentation:

""" Delete unneeded branch

    $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git
    $ cd my.git
    $ git branch -d -r todo html man   (1)
"""

I think the last command can't work since the given refs can't be found according the rules given by the documention you mentioned earlier.

thanks

-- 
Francis