From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 20:01:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rephrased git-describe description
Message-ID: <482B4526.9020905@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <7v7idwoh9m.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

While we're talking about 'git-describe': I always wondered what the '-g'
in front of the sha1 stands for when I issue 'git describe'. Is it for 
'generation'
or what? Actually I'd appreciate if that '-g' would be dropped as it is of
no use but I also recognize that git-describe is one of the plumbing tools.
I'm just curious.
  Dirk

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Ian Hilt <ian.hilt@gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> git-describe: Make description more readable.
>>     
>
> Thanks, both.  I think the above is meant to be on the Subject: line, and
> the text certainly is more readable.
>
>   
>> Signed-off-by: Ian Hilt <ian.hilt@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/git-describe.txt |    7 ++++---
>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
>> index d9aa2f2..69e1ab7 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
>> @@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
>>  DESCRIPTION
>>  -----------
>>  The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a
>> -commit, and if the commit itself is pointed at by the tag, shows
>> -the tag.  Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of
>> -additional commits and the abbreviated object name of the commit.
>> +commit.  If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is
>> +shown.  Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of
>> +additional commits on top of the tagged object and the
>> +abbreviated object name of the most recent commit.
>>     
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