Re: Referring to revisions in the git future

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 12:57:13PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:

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 >> address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/git$ git describe 
 >> v2.1.0-rc2-3-g67de23d

 > Maybe I'm blind, but I can't see anything like a sequential version
 > number in that string.

        It comes in-between the tag name (v2.1.0-rc2) and the Git
        revision proper (g67de23d), prefixed with a ‘g’.

 >> Nobody uses it in Email communication because there are no
 >> sufficient upsides to it.

 > Is it of any use for anything?  Can you use it as input to a git
 > command, for example?

        The part of that string after the last ‘g’ (that is: 67de23d) is
        an abbreviated Git revision hash, which could be used with just
        about any Git command.

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