From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Git describe question Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:00:54 -0700 Message-ID: <7vvdz8hp3d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080714085557.246f52b9@crow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Burton X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 14 10:02:59 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 1KIJ0T-0005QJ-RO for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:02:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755656AbYGNIBA (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:01:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755618AbYGNIBA (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:01:00 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:42941 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755368AbYGNIBA (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:01:00 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166992A4FA; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:59 -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 ESMTPSA id 7845F2A4F9; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080714085557.246f52b9@crow> (Mark Burton's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:55:57 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: FEA0D6C0-517A-11DD-B32D-CE28B26B55AE-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: Mark Burton writes: > Having just pulled the latest updates, git describe says: > > v1.5.6.3-315-g10ce020 > > Why does it think there are 315 commits on top of the v1.5.6.3 tag? Short answer. Because there are. Count'em ;-) $ git rev-list v1.5.6.3..master | wc -l A longer answer. v1.5.6.X releases are from 'maint'. The branch has forked from the mainline loooong time ago (at v1.5.6, to be exact), and has only fixes. 'master' is a separate branch for development that would eventually lead to the next major release (planned to be v1.6.0).