On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Markus Heidelberg
<markus.heidelberg@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> what is the meaning of the character 'g' in output like v1.0.4-14-g2414721 ?
> Is it simply the first letter, which isn't used in hexadecimal numbers
> or has it a deeper sense?
My guess, from 908e531 (Add a "git-describe" command, 2005-12-24), is
that it's short for "git":
IOW, with something like Junios current tree, I get:
[torvalds@g5 git]$ git-describe parent
refs/tags/v1.0.4-g2414721b
ie the current head of my "parent" branch (ie Junio) is based on v1.0.4,
but since it has a few commits on top of that, it has added the git hash
of the thing to the end: "-g" + 8-char shorthand for the commit
2414721b194453f058079d897d13c4e377f92dc6.
-- http://marc.info/?t=113546113600001
But I think only Linus (+cc) knows. :-)
j.
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