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From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
To: Martin Pirker <Martin.Pirker@iaik.tugraz.at>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-describe hash length
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:34:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <497867BE.8070509@dbservice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497857CE.3060101@iaik.tugraz.at>

On 01/22/2009 12:26 PM, Martin Pirker wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> john@doe:/workspace$ git version
> git version 1.6.1
> john@doe:/workspace$ git describe
> fatal: cannot describe '7aee61cc635a923e70b74091486742481ee0928b'
> john@doe:/workspace$ git describe --always
> 7aee61c
> john@doe:/workspace$ git describe --always --abbrev=8
> 7aee61cc
>
>
> man git-describe:
>
>    --abbrev=<n>
>        Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the
>        abbreviated object name, use<n>  digits.
>
>
>
> There is one character missing from default or what am I missing?

The man page is wrong:

cache.h:#define DEFAULT_ABBREV 7
builtin-describe.c:static int abbrev = DEFAULT_ABBREV;

tom

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-22 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-22 11:26 git-describe hash length Martin Pirker
2009-01-22 12:34 ` Tomas Carnecky [this message]
2009-01-22 18:26   ` [PATCH] Fix Documentation for git-describe Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-01-23  9:36     ` Junio C Hamano

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