Re: Git describe question

Mark Burton [off-list ref] writes:

Having just pulled the latest updates, git describe says:

v1.5.6.3-315-g10ce020

Why does it think there are 315 commits on top of the v1.5.6.3 tag?

Short answer.  Because there are.  Count'em ;-)

	$ git rev-list v1.5.6.3..master | wc -l

A longer answer.  v1.5.6.X releases are from 'maint'.  The branch has
forked from the mainline loooong time ago (at v1.5.6, to be exact), and
has only fixes.  'master' is a separate branch for development that would
eventually lead to the next major release (planned to be v1.6.0).