From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:00:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Git describe question
Message-ID: <7vvdz8hp3d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080714085557.246f52b9@crow>

Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com> writes:

> 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).