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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-describe.txt | 2 |
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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 |