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name the same commit object if there are no other object in
your repository whose object name starts with dae86e.
-* An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, followed by a
- dash, a `g`, and an abbreviated object name.
+* An output from 'git-describe'; i.e. a closest tag, optionally
+ followed by a dash and a number of commits, followed by a dash, a
+ `g`, and an abbreviated object name.
* A symbolic ref name. E.g. 'master' typically means the commit
object referenced by $GIT_DIR/refs/heads/master. If you
Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> .
-Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> and Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
+Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
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