From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: [PATCH] More precise description of 'git describe --abbrev' Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:18:39 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com To: Gisle Aas X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 30 21:18:54 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 1N3xvx-0003oL-Nr for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:18:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754019AbZJ3USj (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:18:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751903AbZJ3USj (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:18:39 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:33896 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751866AbZJ3USi (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:18:38 -0400 Received: from mail01.m-online.net (mail.m-online.net [192.168.3.149]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC9FA1C00204; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:18:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (dynscan2.mnet-online.de [192.168.1.215]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD0A90174; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:18:41 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.3.149]) by localhost (dynscan2.mnet-online.de [192.168.1.215]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DlTrSLI7HCCx; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:18:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from igel.home (DSL01.83.171.185.109.ip-pool.NEFkom.net [83.171.185.109]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:18:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 2C68C10DB86; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:18:39 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Everybody gets free BORSCHT! In-Reply-To: (Gisle Aas's message of "Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:38:29 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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"? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."