Re: Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix

From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Nov 2, 2006, 01:47 UTC
Message-ID: <45494E20.1000503@shadowen.org>
In-Reply-To: <eibh94$t7n$1@sea.gmane.org>

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

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> 
> hi,
> 
> the convention to use a 'g' in the output of git-describe, eg.
> 
>   [lilydev@haring lilypond]$ git describe --abbrev=39
>   lilypond_2_9_7-g47778d2297276484c861fc7536da13feb2d5fe8
> 
> 
> is confusing: the g is also a hex digit, and without reading the manual
> carefully, you'd think this is the commit g4777.
> 
> Proposal: why not use
> 
>   tag#sha1
> 
> or some other non-hex character.

g is not a hex digit, hex is 0-f ??

In current versions of git, this whole string is also a valid name for the commit ie you can do the following:

	git show lilypond_2_9_7-g47778d2297276484c861fc7536da13feb2d5fe8

-apw