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| author |  Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> | 2019-04-06 14:27:47 +0100 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-04-08 17:24:51 +0900 |
| commit | ffea0248bfb81316d1e87856c7cecb636da9675d (patch) | |
| tree | 5bf374996f9fcd81605dc6ee0adeb3e3bb10ff3b /Documentation | |
| parent | mingw: allow building with an MSYS2 runtime v3.x (diff) | |
| download | tgif-ffea0248bfb81316d1e87856c7cecb636da9675d.tar.xz | |
describe doc: remove '7-char' abbreviation reference
While the minimum is 7-char, the unambiguous length can be longer.
Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-describe.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index ccdc5f83d6..a88f6ae2c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ at the end. 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 +The hash suffix is "-g" + unambiguous 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 |