# [PATCH] Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: update for new git-describe output format 1 messages from 2008-07-27 to 2008-07-27. Participants: Cesar Eduardo Barros. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14697 ## Cesar Eduardo Barros, 2008-07-27 00:46 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt: update for new git-describe output format Message-ID: <1217119560-28380-1-git-send-email-cesarb@cesarb.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1217119560-28380-1-git-send-email-cesarb%40cesarb.net ``` Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros --- Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 -- 1.5.6.4 ```