Re: Remote git-describe ?

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Date

Jan 24, 2007, 13:57 UTC

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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0701241456230.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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<7vlkjsfvro.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> This should be obvious to people who know git, but the above
> does not mean we can remove gXXXX part from the describe output,
> becauses there could be infinite number of commits that are 256
> commits away from v2.6.20-rc5 tag.

This is only completely true if "infinite" is smaller than 2^160...

;-)