According to the man of git-describe, http://git-scm.com/docs/git-describe
git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit
It means that this command shows the name of the most recent tag.
However, actually, it construct a new tag name if the current commit
is not tagged.
I think, "git-describe - Describe a commit using the most recent tag
reachable from it" is a better summary.
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Best Regards
Yours faithfully
Albert Netymk
git describe does not show 'the most recent tag that is reachable from a
commit', but a descriptive name based on this tag. Fix the description to
reflect that.
Suggested-by: Albert Netymk <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <redacted>
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According to the man of git-describe, http://git-scm.com/docs/git-describe
git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit
It means that this command shows the name of the most recent tag.
However, actually, it construct a new tag name if the current commit
is not tagged.
I think, "git-describe - Describe a commit using the most recent tag
reachable from it" is a better summary.
Indeed. Here's a patch fixing this.
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 d20ca40..e045fc7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-describe(1)
NAME
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-git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit
+git-describe - Describe a commit using the most recent tag reachable from it
SYNOPSIS
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