From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:56:47 GMT
Subject: Re: why the 'g' prefix on the SHA1 in git-describe output?
Message-ID: <8c5c35580711030656h23d5910ah824de41a2cf4eafe@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <871wb7a53d.fsf@rho.meyering.net>

On Nov 3, 2007 1:25 PM, Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what motivated adding the 'g' prefix on the SHA1 in
> git-describe output?

I'm not sure what _motivated_ the 'g', but currently git-rev-parse
understands the output from git-describe _if_ the 'g' is present.

--
larsh