Re: Remote git-describe ?
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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>> This should be obvious to people who know git, but the above
>> does not mean we can remove gXXXX part from the describe output,
>> becauses there could be infinite number of commits that are 256
>> commits away from v2.6.20-rc5 tag.
> This is only completely true if "infinite" is smaller than 2^160...
actually not. you can have more, but then even the hash isn't unique anymore. oh no!
cheers
simon
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