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diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 6fc5323ee6..039cce2e98 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ OPTIONS --all:: Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref found in `.git/refs/`. This option enables matching - any known branch, remote branch, or lightweight tag. + any known branch, remote-tracking branch, or lightweight tag. --tags:: Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any tag @@ -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: @@ -153,17 +156,6 @@ selected and output. Here fewest commits different is defined as the number of commits which would be shown by `git log tag..input` will be the smallest number of commits possible. - -Author ------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, but somewhat -butchered by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>. Later significantly -updated by Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>. - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |