From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:37:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix
Message-ID: <4549CA6B.4090909@shadowen.org>
In-Reply-To: <4549C083.9060805@xs4all.nl>

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 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?