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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>2008-06-30 01:09:04 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-07-01 17:20:15 -0700
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Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using "git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.) This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command, program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are made to use the dashless form. The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched versions are identical. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 9f6f483186..b6c86c2aea 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] <committish>...
+'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] <committish>...
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ EXAMPLES
With something like git.git current tree, I get:
- [torvalds@g5 git]$ git-describe parent
+ [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe parent
v1.0.4-14-g2414721
i.e. the current head of my "parent" branch is based on v1.0.4,
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ of parent (which was `2414721b194453f058079d897d13c4e377f92dc6`).
Doing a "git-describe" on a tag-name will just show the tag name:
- [torvalds@g5 git]$ git-describe v1.0.4
+ [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe v1.0.4
v1.0.4
With --all, the command can use branch heads as references, so
@@ -115,13 +115,13 @@ closest tagname without any suffix:
SEARCH STRATEGY
---------------
-For each committish supplied "git describe" will first look for
+For each committish supplied "git-describe" will first look for
a tag which tags exactly that commit. Annotated tags will always
be preferred over lightweight tags, and tags with newer dates will
always be preferred over tags with older dates. If an exact match
is found, its name will be output and searching will stop.
-If an exact match was not found "git describe" will walk back
+If an exact match was not found "git-describe" will walk back
through the commit history to locate an ancestor commit which
has been tagged. The ancestor's tag will be output along with an
abbreviation of the input committish's SHA1.