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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-03-25 02:24:21 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-03-25 02:24:21 +0300 |
| commit | a5ee8faaee15d2f53de3bd182550f506a3162fbe (patch) | |
| tree | 332bf3614cf979408d6191ab9ab7cebac420323d /Documentation | |
| parent | 4503bd5c3732b142667e14d214c21c46e8f3eeaa (diff) | |
| parent | 0476228de500049804ae599f557658c3f9042ad0 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
Documentation: explain the meaning of "-g" in git-describe output
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-describe.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 6fc5323ee6..7ef9d51577 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -105,6 +105,9 @@ The number of additional commits is the number of commits which would be displayed by "git log v1.0.4..parent". The hash suffix is "-g" + 7-char abbreviation for the tip commit of parent (which was `2414721b194453f058079d897d13c4e377f92dc6`). +The "g" prefix stands for "git" and is used to allow describing the version of +a software depending on the SCM the software is managed with. This is useful +in an environment where people may use different SCMs. Doing a 'git describe' on a tag-name will just show the tag name: |