Re: Suggestion: drop 'g' in git-describe suffix

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

hi,

the convention to use a 'g' in the output of git-describe, eg.

  [lilydev@haring lilypond]$ git describe --abbrev=39
  lilypond_2_9_7-g47778d2297276484c861fc7536da13feb2d5fe8


is confusing: the g is also a hex digit, and without reading the manual
carefully, you'd think this is the commit g4777.

Proposal: why not use

  tag#sha1

or some other non-hex character.

g is not a hex digit, hex is 0-f ??

In current versions of git, this whole string is also a valid name for
the commit ie you can do the following:

	git show lilypond_2_9_7-g47778d2297276484c861fc7536da13feb2d5fe8

-apw