From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev'
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:18:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2my38fxeo.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b48ea8a00910291438r8b66a0fq9e821393ecfff0bf@mail.gmail.com> (Gisle Aas's message of "Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:38:29 +0100")
Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> 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=<n>::
> Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
> - abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
> + abbreviated object name, use <n> digits or as many digits
> + are needed to form a unique object name. An <n> of 0
"as many digits as needed"?
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-30 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-29 21:38 [PATCH] More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev' Gisle Aas
2009-10-29 22:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-30 8:01 ` Gisle Aas
2009-10-30 19:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-30 19:27 ` Gisle Aas
2009-10-30 20:18 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-10-30 21:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-04 22:04 ` Gisle Aas
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