From: Ian Hilt <ian.hilt@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ian Hilt <ian.hilt@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Rephrased git-describe description
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:22:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210774947-27995-1-git-send-email-ian.hilt@gmail.com> (raw)
Made description more readable.
Signed-off-by: Ian Hilt <ian.hilt@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/git-describe.txt | 7 ++++---
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index d9aa2f2..f3f07e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a
-commit, and if the commit itself is pointed at by the tag, shows
-the tag. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of
-additional commits and the abbreviated object name of the commit.
+commit. If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is
+shown. Otherwise, the number of additional commits on top of the
+tagged object and the abbreviated object name of the most recent
+commit are suffixed to the tag name.
OPTIONS
--
1.5.3.7
next reply other threads:[~2008-05-14 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-14 14:22 Ian Hilt [this message]
2008-05-14 16:57 ` [PATCH] Rephrased git-describe description Kevin Ballard
2008-05-14 18:00 ` Ian Hilt
2008-05-14 18:03 ` Kevin Ballard
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-14 18:30 Ian Hilt
2008-05-14 18:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-14 20:01 ` Dirk Süsserott
2008-05-14 23:02 ` Ian Hilt
2008-05-17 0:03 ` Junio C Hamano
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