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@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ working tree. After running `git add hello.c; rm hello.c`, you will _not_
see `hello.c` in your working tree with the former, but with the latter
you will.
+ * Just as the filesystem '.' (period) refers to the current directory,
+ using a '.' as a repository name in Git (a dot-repository) is a relative
+ path and means your current repository.
+
Here are the rules regarding the "flags" that you should follow when you are
scripting Git:
@@ -106,7 +110,7 @@ couple of magic command line options:
+
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$ git describe -h
-usage: git describe [options] <committish>*
+usage: git describe [options] <commit-ish>*
or: git describe [options] --dirty
--contains find the tag that comes after the commit