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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Teach git-describe to display distances from tags.
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:36:18 +0000
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On Friday 2007 January 26 00:13, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Hmph.  And an option --no-number to disable this is probably not
> worth it, as it forces the existing scripts that wants the
> tagname to be updated to pass that new option.  If the users
> need to update their scripts anyway, they can sed/expr the
> number out just as easily as passing the new option.

Actually, the more useful switch would be "--tag-only"; then

x=$(git-describe HEAD | sed 's/-g*//')

In scripts could become

x=$(git-describe --tag-only HEAD)

Then, the suffix can be anything we want, and can change in the future without 
affecting these scripts.


Andy
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