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| author |  Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> | 2010-03-22 21:45:33 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2010-03-24 11:31:45 -0700 |
| commit | 846b8f681a0a75cec2b930007c84e98346940459 (patch) | |
| tree | d93a1a8e39ad47909d66c5fc69a176c306ef856e /Documentation | |
| parent | Git 1.7.0.3 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-846b8f681a0a75cec2b930007c84e98346940459.tar.xz | |
Documentation: explain the meaning of "-g" in git-describe output
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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: |