From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:53:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev'
Message-ID: <7vmy38im51.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m2my38fxeo.fsf@igel.home>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> writes:
>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
>> index b231dbb..743eb95 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
>> @@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ OPTIONS
>>
>>  --abbrev=<n>::
>>  	Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
>> -	abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
>> +	abbreviated object name, use <n> digits or as many digits
>> +	are needed to form a unique object name.  An <n> of 0
>
> "as many digits as needed"?

Thanks; queued with this fix-up.