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

Andy Whitcroft escreveu:

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

quoted

Andy Whitcroft escreveu:

quoted

quoted

or some other non-hex character.

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

Yes of course; silly me. Still I think it would be clearer if it used a
non-alphabet char, eg.

  tag+sha1

to separate the tag and the committish.

Well there is a non-alphabet character in there, a minus (-).  The g
prefix on the sha1 _fragment_ it to indicate that it is in fact a
truncated sha1, not a complete one.  

is this policy documented somewhere?  None of the tools understand it.

[lilydev@haring git]$ git describe
v1.4.3.3-g1e1f76e
[lilydev@haring git]$ git show g1e1f76e
fatal: ambiguous argument 'g1e1f76e': unknown revision or path not in 
the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

My suggestion is to use

   v1.4.3.3+1e1f76e

here.

If you want the complete clean sha1
this is not the way to get it?

-- 
  Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen