On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:03:31 +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Dear diary, on Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:37:31AM CET, I got a letter > where Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said that... > > The g prefix on the sha1 _fragment_ it to indicate that it is in fact > > a truncated sha1, not a complete one. > > I think it's rather to indicate that it is a sha1 at all. Frankly, I've never understood the 'g' prefix at all. I don't use git-describe much, but some people have sent me things with this 'g' on the front and every time I've received that I was annoyed to find the commit identifier they sent didn't work until I manually removed it. It's definitely never provided any useful semantic information to me. -Carl
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