Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.5.2-140-g5f809

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/git-describe.html b/git-describe.html
index 13b8a9194..7d3582a43 100644
--- a/git-describe.html
+++ b/git-describe.html
@@ -380,7 +380,9 @@ see the -a and -s options to <a href="git-tag.html">git-tag(1)</a>.</p></div>
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 <p>

         Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the

-        abbreviated object name, use &lt;n&gt; digits.

+        abbreviated object name, use &lt;n&gt; digits, or as many digits

+        as needed to form a unique object name.  An &lt;n&gt; of 0

+        will suppress long format, only showing the closest tag.

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@@ -424,8 +426,8 @@ see the -a and -s options to <a href="git-tag.html">git-tag(1)</a>.</p></div>
         This is useful when you want to see parts of the commit object name

         in "describe" output, even when the commit in question happens to be

         a tagged version.  Instead of just emitting the tag name, it will

-        describe such a commit as v1.2-0-deadbeef (0th commit since tag v1.2

-        that points at object deadbeef&#8230;.).

+        describe such a commit as v1.2-0-gdeadbee (0th commit since tag v1.2

+        that points at object deadbee&#8230;.).

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@@ -479,7 +481,7 @@ tags/v1.0.0-21-g975b</tt></pre>
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-<pre><tt>[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all HEAD^

+<pre><tt>[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all --abbrev=4 HEAD^

 heads/lt/describe-7-g975b</tt></pre>

 </div></div>

 <div class="para"><p>With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the

@@ -489,6 +491,11 @@ closest tagname without any suffix:</p></div>
 <pre><tt>[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --abbrev=0 v1.0.5^2

 tags/v1.0.0</tt></pre>

 </div></div>

+<div class="para"><p>Note that the suffix you get if you type these commands today may be

+longer than what Linus saw above when he ran this command, as your

+git repository may have new commits whose object names begin with

+975b that did not exist back then, and "-g975b" suffix alone may not

+be sufficient to disambiguate these commits.</p></div>

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 <h2 id="_search_strategy">SEARCH STRATEGY</h2>

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@@ -523,7 +530,7 @@ updated by Shawn Pearce &lt;spearce@spearce.org&gt;.</p></div>
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-Last updated 2009-07-01 02:30:47 UTC

+Last updated 2009-10-31 04:03:03 UTC

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