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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: feature request: git-log should accept sth like v2.6.26-rc8-227
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:08:51 -0700
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Toralf F=C3=B6rster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> writes:

> git-describe gives an informative string about the current status:
> tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/linux-2.6 $ git describe
> v2.6.26-rc9-56-g6329d30
>
> I appended those strings to the names of my UML kernel executables.
> Unfortunately I didn't used the commit id and now I'm wondering wheth=
er git
> could accept v2.6.26-rc9-56 as well in future.

It does take v2.6.26-rc9-56-g6329d30.

It will never take v2.6.26-rc9-56.  The world is not linear.