Fix Documentation for git-describe
The documentation for git-describe says the default abbreviation is 8 hexadecimal digits while cache.c clearly shows DEFAULT_ABBREV set to 7. This patch corrects the documentation. Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@iguanasuicide.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr committed
Jan 22, 2009 at 12:26 UTC
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@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ OPTIONS
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Automatically implies --tags.
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--abbrev=<n>::
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- Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the
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+ Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
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abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
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--candidates=<n>::