From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rephrased git-describe description Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:46:45 -0700 Message-ID: <7v7idwoh9m.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1210789855-29413-1-git-send-email-ian.hilt@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Kevin Ballard To: Ian Hilt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 14 20:49:06 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 1JwM0z-0006aB-3o for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2008 20:47:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754933AbYENSqz (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 14:46:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753816AbYENSqz (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 14:46:55 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:39009 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754776AbYENSqy (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2008 14:46:54 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84EBF5926; Wed, 14 May 2008 14:46:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A2D5922; Wed, 14 May 2008 14:46:48 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1210789855-29413-1-git-send-email-ian.hilt@gmail.com> (Ian Hilt's message of "Wed, 14 May 2008 14:30:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 1E49278A-21E6-11DD-8668-80001473D85F-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Ian Hilt writes: > git-describe: Make description more readable. Thanks, both. I think the above is meant to be on the Subject: line, and the text certainly is 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..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.