From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:26:25 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Fix Documentation for git-describe
X-Git-Tag: v1.6.1.1~10^2
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b938f62a208d24f3d6bed260ceb809cd6b3924d7;p=git.git

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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index c4dbc2ae3..59a6fd17a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	Automatically implies --tags.
 
 --abbrev=<n>::
-	Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the
+	Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
 	abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
 
 --candidates=<n>::