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| author |  Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> | 2021-10-31 13:15:10 -0400 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-11-01 10:34:36 -0700 |
| commit | eccd97d0b02a87db0b0e828dd4f0b441c5462a9c (patch) | |
| tree | 0703d2deb74c613e1f74636a13c6e8ae67ebeaa7 /Documentation | |
| parent | pretty: add tag option to %(describe) (diff) | |
| download | tgif-eccd97d0b02a87db0b0e828dd4f0b441c5462a9c.tar.xz | |
pretty: add abbrev option to %(describe)
The %(describe) placeholder by default, like `git describe`, uses a
seven-character abbreviated commit object name. This may not be
sufficient to fully describe all commits in a given repository,
resulting in a placeholder replacement changing its length because the
repository grew in size. This could cause the output of git-archive to
change.
Add the --abbrev option to `git describe` to the placeholder interface
in order to provide tools to the user for fine-tuning project defaults
and ensure reproducible archives.
One alternative would be to just always specify --abbrev=40 but this may
be a bit too biased...
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index 1ee47bd4a3..9e943fb74b 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ The placeholders are: + ** 'tags[=<bool>]': Instead of only considering annotated tags, consider lightweight tags as well. +** 'abbrev=<number>': Instead of using the default number of hexadecimal digits + (which will vary according to the number of objects in the repository with a + default of 7) of the abbreviated object name, use <number> digits, or as many + digits as needed to form a unique object name. ** 'match=<pattern>': Only consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern, excluding the "refs/tags/" prefix. ** 'exclude=<pattern>': Do not consider tags matching the given |