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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-03-25 00:38:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-03-25 00:38:53 +0000 |
| commit | 3166736468c0b21727d059d09468111c5a3163c4 (patch) | |
| tree | f94473e9050b0b159edbdec0a0619f4d8d57c11d /git-describe.txt | |
| parent | 9ccf664de57a05c6417f1fe46f6c6b55322f218c (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-3166736468c0b21727d059d09468111c5a3163c4.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.0.3-291-g5e4f
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diff --git a/git-describe.txt b/git-describe.txt index 6fc5323ee..7ef9d5157 100644 --- a/git-describe.txt +++ b/git-describe.txt @@ -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: |