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Re: Git describe question

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 14, 2008, 08:00 UTC
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Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com> writes:
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> Having just pulled the latest updates, git describe says:
>
> v1.5.6.3-315-g10ce020
>
> Why does it think there are 315 commits on top of the v1.5.6.3 tag?
Short answer.  Because there are.  Count'em ;-)
	$ git rev-list v1.5.6.3..master | wc -l

A longer answer. v1.5.6.X releases are from 'maint'. The branch has forked from the mainline loooong time ago (at v1.5.6, to be exact), and has only fixes. 'master' is a separate branch for development that would eventually lead to the next major release (planned to be v1.6.0).

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