From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Mark Burton <markb@ordern•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git describe question
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:00:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vvdz8hp3d.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080714085557.246f52b9@crow> (Mark Burton's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:55:57 +0100")
Mark Burton <markb@ordern•com> writes:
> Having just pulled the latest updates, git describe says:
>
> v1.5.6.3-315-g10ce020
>
> Why does it think there are 315 commits on top of the v1.5.6.3 tag?
Short answer. Because there are. Count'em ;-)
$ git rev-list v1.5.6.3..master | wc -l
A longer answer. v1.5.6.X releases are from 'maint'. The branch has
forked from the mainline loooong time ago (at v1.5.6, to be exact), and
has only fixes. 'master' is a separate branch for development that would
eventually lead to the next major release (planned to be v1.6.0).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-14 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 7:55 Git describe question Mark Burton
2008-07-14 8:00 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-14 8:20 ` Mark Burton
2008-07-14 22:29 ` Jean-Luc Herren
2008-07-14 23:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-15 6:40 ` Mark Burton
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