From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 18:46:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rephrased git-describe description
Message-ID: <7v7idwoh9m.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1210789855-29413-1-git-send-email-ian.hilt@gmail.com>

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.