From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev' Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:53:46 -0700 Message-ID: <7vmy38im51.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Gisle Aas , git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com To: Andreas Schwab X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 30 22:54:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N3zQ1-0002oz-KM for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:54:01 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932940AbZJ3Vxw (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:53:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932936AbZJ3Vxw (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:53:52 -0400 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:35813 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932929AbZJ3Vxv (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:53:51 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DDF38BD87; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:53:56 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=pQoj6RWZf59Nz0qyF9008qIKhkc=; b=Pa3jHv H5IVc2sk5CGMtdXFmZY/VcIG5N91qFFYGM9ZQXrxUGV6/uZPHwz0TVLpfXTsoaAn EaLTpfFg0xAduN4Cuepz0ftUiVuVY27k+VWMd1syZCEuH44zHy9q19BgwlC0cRdv 0O5nTOiryl3wg7K6HtIhThLPqPUEx1+F6w72o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Fjn3cOTaXj3l9g3/OyYN/EF6gN7P1L3V RVODdOu8Q9DI+C/oACJ8eA5X7JBg2upc3lNMPQQMQP4+17F49tguQ1ilC4IuQITw R0LZo3w3Ijomc2q2rpQBSh3RQtRdO5uMbBl9sPEKx5tUWzmlTdnkyHMhDrsAQywa urs+8lOCpg4= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C6A8BD86; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:53:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B2B738BD80; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:53:47 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Fri\, 30 Oct 2009 21\:18\:39 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B70C3FAE-C59E-11DE-9DEB-A67CBBB5EC2E-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > Gisle Aas writes: > >> diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt >> index b231dbb..743eb95 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt >> @@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ OPTIONS >> >> --abbrev=:: >> Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the >> - abbreviated object name, use digits. >> + abbreviated object name, use digits or as many digits >> + are needed to form a unique object name. An of 0 > > "as many digits as needed"? Thanks; queued with this fix-up.