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Re: [PATCH] More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev'

From
Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Date
Nov 4, 2009, 22:04 UTC
Message-ID
<b48ea8a00911041404p2f176763kcc022249deab23a9@mail.gmail.com>
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Unfortunately there was still a grammar typo in that patch:
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ closest tagname without any suffix:
        tags/v1.0.0

 Note that the suffix you get if you type these commands today may be
-longer than what Linus saw above when he ran this command, as your
+longer than what Linus saw above when he ran these commands, as your
 git repository may have new commits whose object names begin with
 975b that did not exist back then, and "-g975b" suffix alone may not
 be sufficient to disambiguate these commits.


From 8910eed48f0c4c53af1b74d0016ef772bdce5689 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:57:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix documentation grammar typo

Introduced in commit 492cf3f72f9d8...

Signed-off-by: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
---
 Documentation/git-describe.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index e9dbca7..2f97916 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ closest tagname without any suffix:
 	tags/v1.0.0
 
 Note that the suffix you get if you type these commands today may be
-longer than what Linus saw above when he ran this command, as your
+longer than what Linus saw above when he ran these commands, as your
 git repository may have new commits whose object names begin with
 975b that did not exist back then, and "-g975b" suffix alone may not
 be sufficient to disambiguate these commits.
-- 
1.6.2.95.g934f7
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 8 of 8 in “More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev'”
  1. More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev'Gisle Aas, Oct 29, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 29, 2009
  3. Gisle AasOct 30, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2009
  5. Gisle AasOct 30, 2009
  6. Andreas SchwabOct 30, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2009
  8. Gisle AasNov 4, 2009

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