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From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: hanwen@xs4all.nl
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:47:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45494E20.1000503@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eibh94$t7n$1@sea.gmane.org>

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> the convention to use a 'g' in the output of git-describe, eg.
> 
>   [lilydev@haring lilypond]$ git describe --abbrev=39
>   lilypond_2_9_7-g47778d2297276484c861fc7536da13feb2d5fe8
> 
> 
> is confusing: the g is also a hex digit, and without reading the manual
> carefully, you'd think this is the commit g4777.
> 
> Proposal: why not use
> 
>   tag#sha1
> 
> or some other non-hex character.

g is not a hex digit, hex is 0-f ??

In current versions of git, this whole string is also a valid name for
the commit ie you can do the following:

	git show lilypond_2_9_7-g47778d2297276484c861fc7536da13feb2d5fe8

-apw

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-02  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-02  1:23 Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-02  1:47 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2006-11-02  9:55   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-02 10:37     ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-02 10:53       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-02 10:59         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-02 11:12         ` Santi Béjar
2006-11-02 11:21           ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-02 12:39             ` Santi Béjar
2006-11-02 13:52               ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-02 11:23           ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-11-02 12:44             ` Santi Béjar
2006-11-02 14:07             ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-02 14:48           ` Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-11-02 15:01             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-11-02 19:12               ` Nicolas Vilz 'niv'
2006-11-02 11:12         ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-11-02 11:03       ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-02 13:45         ` Carl Worth

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