From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Hilt Subject: [PATCH] Rephrased git-describe description Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 10:22:27 -0400 Message-ID: <1210774947-27995-1-git-send-email-ian.hilt@gmail.com> Cc: Ian Hilt To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 14 16:23:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JwHsz-00016i-Vt for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 16:23:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754577AbYENOWW (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 10:22:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753748AbYENOWW (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 10:22:22 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.248]:19244 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752830AbYENOWV (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 10:22:21 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so688095and.103 for ; Wed, 14 May 2008 07:22:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer; bh=mO2sQjWaVmkrIc3FQYzw32OqPLvH4de6dCjCffMEqSA=; b=uRzyTRRTg2bzWvoqv0TPFPH6hhSRyvAmd7un1ueRjA+IjW+1dpDbg1Kvu0CvkFRnCpl7zmIvitg1OqSdGwEEb5u2XbHDE38gxAwwR0OdoFXKZAOJA3ciD/v5wwJLfrOMSFqL/4av9Gh29q81OBYeOddLz6nZ3MtxK9Fop0O5VhA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer; b=kjaFC6U4MHVEhLiP9zD8WR4N65ZGqn9YsPupGU5V+XURF8g1MWKZ5t6HeDikzYUFgaZd15W8TO88l+zzJXNB7R5r3JYG9N7sufL/VMdqAbRRi92OFLCuNIg4Nj/YXz15OFzRspZbYsCQMl9G9CrIlHaubuI8KgblvjrXGPjkZmw= Received: by 10.100.229.12 with SMTP id b12mr1284926anh.60.1210774938186; Wed, 14 May 2008 07:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sys-0 ( [75.185.208.72]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b19sm2359920ana.19.2008.05.14.07.22.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 14 May 2008 07:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sys-0 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 14 May 2008 10:22:27 -0400 X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.3.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Made description more readable. Signed-off-by: Ian Hilt --- 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