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| author |  Ian Hilt <ian.hilt@gmail.com> | 2008-05-14 14:30:55 -0400 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-05-14 11:47:03 -0700 |
| commit | b7893cde53eb2834deb16820eccb709d2636b81b (patch) | |
| tree | 864ce32f8270167a16c480f65a97522d467bea1e /Documentation/git-describe.txt | |
| parent | wt-status.h: declare global variables as extern (diff) | |
| download | tgif-b7893cde53eb2834deb16820eccb709d2636b81b.tar.xz | |
Documentation/git-describe.txt: make description more readable
Signed-off-by: Ian Hilt <ian.hilt@gmail.com>
Credit-to: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-describe.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-describe.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 0742152b81..5e88b6e79a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a -commit, and if the commit itself is pointed at by the tag, shows -the tag. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of -additional commits and the abbreviated object name of the commit. +commit. If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is +shown. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of +additional commits on top of the tagged object and the +abbreviated object name of the most recent commit. OPTIONS |