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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 14:30:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210789855-29413-1-git-send-email-ian.hilt@gmail.com> (raw)

git-describe: Make 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..69e1ab7 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, it suffixes the tag name with the number of
+additional commits on top of the tagged object and the
+abbreviated object name of the most recent commit.
 
 
 OPTIONS
-- 
1.5.3.7

             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-14 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-14 18:30 Ian Hilt [this message]
2008-05-14 18:46 ` [PATCH] Rephrased git-describe description 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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-14 14:22 Ian Hilt
2008-05-14 16:57 ` Kevin Ballard
2008-05-14 18:00   ` Ian Hilt
2008-05-14 18:03     ` Kevin Ballard

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