Re: Remote git-describe ?

From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>
Date: 2007-01-25 01:28:57
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> This should be obvious to people who know git, but the above
>> does not mean we can remove gXXXX part from the describe output,
>> becauses there could be infinite number of commits that are 256
>> commits away from v2.6.20-rc5 tag.
> This is only completely true if "infinite" is smaller than 2^160...

actually not.  you can have more, but then even the hash isn't unique anymore.  oh no!

cheers
  simon

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