On Friday 2007 January 26 00:13, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Hmph. And an option --no-number to disable this is probably not > worth it, as it forces the existing scripts that wants the > tagname to be updated to pass that new option. If the users > need to update their scripts anyway, they can sed/expr the > number out just as easily as passing the new option. Actually, the more useful switch would be "--tag-only"; then x=$(git-describe HEAD | sed 's/-g*//') In scripts could become x=$(git-describe --tag-only HEAD) Then, the suffix can be anything we want, and can change in the future without affecting these scripts. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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