[PATCH] Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: update for new git-describe output format

Cesar Eduardo Barros· Jul 27, 2008, 00:46 UTC · lore

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
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 Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 5c93669..2921da3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -155,8 +155,9 @@ blobs contained in a commit.
   name the same commit object if there are no other object in
   your repository whose object name starts with dae86e.
 
-* An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, followed by a
-  dash, a `g`, and an abbreviated object name.
+* An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, optionally
+  followed by a dash and a number of commits, followed by a dash, a
+  `g`, and an abbreviated object name.
 
 * A symbolic ref name.  E.g. 'master' typically means the commit
   object referenced by $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master.  If you

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patchDocumentation/git-rev-parse.txt: update for new git-describe output format