While the minimum is 7-char, the unambiguous length can be longer. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> --- noticed while looking int the Git-for-Windows patch thicket - was looking for the ~n^m style! --- Documentation/git-describe.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index ccdc5f83d6..a88f6ae2c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ at the end. The number of additional commits is the number of commits which would be displayed by "git log v1.0.4..parent". -The hash suffix is "-g" + 7-char abbreviation for the tip commit +The hash suffix is "-g" + unambiguous abbreviation for the tip commit of parent (which was `2414721b194453f058079d897d13c4e377f92dc6`). The "g" prefix stands for "git" and is used to allow describing the version of a software depending on the SCM the software is managed with. This is useful -- 2.21.0.windows.1.80.gdc2ae9a382
