On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 20:00, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Adding an explanation like this so that nobody will be tempted to "fix" > the example would be the best, I think. Updated patch attached. > > [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all --abbrev=4 v1.0.5^2 > tags/v1.0.0-21-g975b > > Note that the suffix you get if you type this command today may be > longer than what Linus saw above when he ran this command, as your > git repository may have new commits whose object names begin with > 975b that did not exist back then, and "-g975b" suffix alone is not > sufficient to disambiguate these commits. > >
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