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git-describe manual page's one sentence summary is misleading

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ANAlbert Netymk <albertnetymk@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 16, 2015, 10:45 UTC
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According to the man of git-describe, http://git-scm.com/docs/git-describe
git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit
It means that this command shows the name of the most recent tag.

However, actually, it construct a new tag name if the current commit is not tagged.

I think, "git-describe - Describe a commit using the most recent tag reachable from it" is a better summary.

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Albert Netymk
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  1. Albert NetymkJun 16, 2015
  2. Documentation/describe: improve one-line summaryMatthieu Moy, Jun 16, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 16, 2015

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