Ann T Ropea <bedhanger@xxxxxx> writes: > This could be confusing not only for novices; in either case, no range > should be insinuated by describe_detached_head. We actually do not insinuate any range in these output. These dots denote "truncated at the end, instead of giving full length." Another place these "many dots" appear is "git diff --raw", for example.