From ffea0248bfb81316d1e87856c7cecb636da9675d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Oakley Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2019 14:27:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] describe doc: remove '7-char' abbreviation reference While the minimum is 7-char, the unambiguous length can be longer. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- 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 ccdc5f83d6dcd2..a88f6ae2c6e785 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