From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:12:39 +0000 Message-ID: <4549D2A7.7000209@shadowen.org> References: <45494E20.1000503@shadowen.org> <4549C083.9060805@xs4all.nl> <4549CA6B.4090909@shadowen.org> <4549CE2A.3010808@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Git Mailing List Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060812) In-Reply-To: <4549CE2A.3010808@xs4all.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfaVd-0004M3-2Y for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:13:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752850AbWKBLNS (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 06:13:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752851AbWKBLNS (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 06:13:18 -0500 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:5643 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752850AbWKBLNR (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 06:13:17 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by hellhawk.shadowen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GfaUw-00044Y-OG; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:12:39 +0000 To: hanwen@xs4all.nl Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > Andy Whitcroft escreveu: >> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: >>> Andy Whitcroft escreveu: >>>>> or some other non-hex character. >>>> g is not a hex digit, hex is 0-f ?? >>>> >>> Yes of course; silly me. Still I think it would be clearer if it used a >>> non-alphabet char, eg. >>> >>> tag+sha1 >>> >>> to separate the tag and the committish. >> >> Well there is a non-alphabet character in there, a minus (-). The g >> prefix on the sha1 _fragment_ it to indicate that it is in fact a >> truncated sha1, not a complete one. > > is this policy documented somewhere? None of the tools understand it. > > [lilydev@haring git]$ git describe > v1.4.3.3-g1e1f76e > [lilydev@haring git]$ git show g1e1f76e > fatal: ambiguous argument 'g1e1f76e': unknown revision or path not in > the working tree. > Use '--' to separate paths from revisions > > My suggestion is to use > > v1.4.3.3+1e1f76e > > here. The 'whole' thing is valid as an object reference: apw@pinky$ git describe v1.4.3.3-g8cf249b apw@pinky$ git show v1.4.3.3-g8cf249b commit 8cf249b755c257ea19100b888ac612e601cdf96b Merge: 15c3ffb... fa438a2... [...]