Re: Remote git-describe ?

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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
This should be obvious to people who know git, but the above
does not mean we can remove gXXXX part from the describe output,
becauses there could be infinite number of commits that are 256
commits away from v2.6.20-rc5 tag.
This is only completely true if "infinite" is smaller than 2^160...

actually not.  you can have more, but then even the hash isn't unique anymore.  oh no!

cheers
 simon

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