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git-describe.1: clarify that "human readable" is also git-readable
The caption uses the term "human readable", but the DESCRIPTION did not explain this in context. Signed-off-by: Frederick Eaton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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commit. If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is
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shown. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of
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additional commits on top of the tagged object and the
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abbreviated object name of the most recent commit.
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abbreviated object name of the most recent commit. The result
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is a "human-readable" object name which can also be used to
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identify the commit to other git commands.
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By default (without --all or --tags) `git describe` only shows
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annotated tags. For more information about creating annotated tags

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