From b938f62a208d24f3d6bed260ceb809cd6b3924d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:26:25 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
 Documentation/git-describe.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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>::
-- 
2.30.2