2009/7/16 Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > I'm a bit surprised about the output of git-describe: if I'm on a tag, > git-describe tells the tag's name. Fine. If I commit sth. on top of > that, it tells how far I'm away from that tag and the current commit's > SHA1. Very fine. But then the SHA1 is preceeded with a '-g'. What's that > for? I'm sure it stands for something like "git". You don't want a random number appended to your tagname (which is often a version number) because it might be mistaken for part of the version number. The g makes this less likely. It also differentiates between git and any other version control system (except ones starting with 'g', I guess :)) that might implement a similar feature. Avery -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html