git-describe hash length

From: Martin Pirker <martin.pirker@iaik.tugraz.at>
Date: Jan 22, 2009, 11:26 UTC
Message-ID: <497857CE.3060101@iaik.tugraz.at>

Hi!

john@doe:/workspace$ git version git version 1.6.1 john@doe:/workspace$ git describe fatal: cannot describe '7aee61cc635a923e70b74091486742481ee0928b' john@doe:/workspace$ git describe --always 7aee61c john@doe:/workspace$ git describe --always --abbrev=8 7aee61cc

man git-describe:

  --abbrev=<n>
      Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the
      abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.

There is one character missing from default or what am I missing?

Thanks, Martin