On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:17:55AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Yup, that is what I meant to say with "that is already possible" and > we are on the same page. As all three of us seem to be happy with > just dropping --abbrev and letting describe do its default thing (as > configured by whoever is doing the build), let's do so. > > -- >8 -- > From: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 20:45:59 +0000 > Subject: [PATCH] GIT-VERSION-GEN: do not force abbreviation length used by 'describe' Thanks, this is a nice summary of the discussion, and the patch is obviously correct. -Peff