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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2009-10-31 04:03:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org> | 2009-10-31 04:03:55 +0000 |
| commit | c21ab059d7d4dcad19afc93fc1499e8a9b97fd7a (patch) | |
| tree | e089d48d0f6440fa50436a1e9ad275bd4556332e /git-describe.txt | |
| parent | 621e123b886211db461d69906b1e7c184c37263e (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-c21ab059d7d4dcad19afc93fc1499e8a9b97fd7a.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.6.5.2-140-g5f809
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diff --git a/git-describe.txt b/git-describe.txt index b231dbb94..e9dbca7d8 100644 --- a/git-describe.txt +++ b/git-describe.txt @@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ OPTIONS --abbrev=<n>:: Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the - abbreviated object name, use <n> digits. + abbreviated object name, use <n> digits, or as many digits + as needed to form a unique object name. An <n> of 0 + will suppress long format, only showing the closest tag. --candidates=<n>:: Instead of considering only the 10 most recent tags as @@ -68,8 +70,8 @@ OPTIONS 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....). + describe such a commit as v1.2-0-gdeadbee (0th commit since tag v1.2 + that points at object deadbee....). --match <pattern>:: Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid @@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ the output shows the reference path as well: [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all --abbrev=4 v1.0.5^2 tags/v1.0.0-21-g975b - [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all HEAD^ + [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all --abbrev=4 HEAD^ heads/lt/describe-7-g975b With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the @@ -117,6 +119,13 @@ closest tagname without any suffix: [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --abbrev=0 v1.0.5^2 tags/v1.0.0 +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. + + SEARCH STRATEGY --------------- |