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authorLibravatar Boyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@iguanasuicide.net>2009-01-22 12:26:25 -0600
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-01-23 00:17:04 -0800
commitb938f62a208d24f3d6bed260ceb809cd6b3924d7 (patch)
treef87d596fb18be5dc12ce7f017da1653276984fa9
parentbuiltin-fsck: fix off by one head count (diff)
downloadtgif-b938f62a208d24f3d6bed260ceb809cd6b3924d7.tar.xz
Fix Documentation for git-describe
The documentation for git-describe says the default abbreviation is 8 hexadecimal digits while cache.c clearly shows DEFAULT_ABBREV set to 7. This patch corrects the documentation. Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@iguanasuicide.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-describe.txt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index c4dbc2ae34..59a6fd17ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ OPTIONS
Automatically implies --tags.
--abbrev=<n>::
- Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the
+ Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
--candidates=<n>::