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

From
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date
Nov 2, 2006, 10:37 UTC
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Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
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> Andy Whitcroft escreveu:
>>> or some other non-hex character.
>>
>> g is not a hex digit, hex is 0-f ??
>>
> 
> Yes of course; silly me. Still I think it would be clearer if it used a
> non-alphabet char, eg.
> 
>   tag+sha1
> 
> to separate the tag and the committish.

Well there is a non-alphabet character in there, a minus (-). The g prefix on the sha1 _fragment_ it to indicate that it is in fact a truncated sha1, not a complete one. If you want the complete clean sha1 this is not the way to get it?

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  1. Han-Wen NienhuysNov 2, 2006
  2. Andy WhitcroftNov 2, 2006
  3. Han-Wen NienhuysNov 2, 2006
  4. Andy WhitcroftNov 2, 2006
  5. Han-Wen NienhuysNov 2, 2006
  6. Johannes SchindelinNov 2, 2006
  7. Santi BéjarNov 2, 2006
  8. Andy WhitcroftNov 2, 2006
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  10. Andy WhitcroftNov 2, 2006
  11. Han-Wen NienhuysNov 2, 2006
  12. Santi BéjarNov 2, 2006
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  14. Nicolas Vilz 'niv'Nov 2, 2006
  15. Johannes SchindelinNov 2, 2006
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  17. Andy WhitcroftNov 2, 2006
  18. Petr BaudisNov 2, 2006
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