git svn: attempt to create empty dirs on clone+rebase

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 5253d86118f1f8345e46fac64994a28a15f065cb..78b9808aa3a2f5fe2435ea188ac4e73508c2720a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] <committish>...
 'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] --dirty[=<mark>]
 
@@ -50,7 +51,9 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --abbrev=<n>::
        Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
-       abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
+       abbreviated object name, use <n> digits, or as many digits
+       as needed to form a unique object name.  An <n> of 0
+       will suppress long format, only showing the closest tag.
 
 --candidates=<n>::
        Instead of considering only the 10 most recent tags as
@@ -74,8 +77,8 @@ OPTIONS
        This is useful when you want to see parts of the commit object name
        in "describe" output, even when the commit in question happens to be
        a tagged version.  Instead of just emitting the tag name, it will
-       describe such a commit as v1.2-0-deadbeef (0th commit since tag v1.2
-       that points at object deadbeef....).
+       describe such a commit as v1.2-0-gdeadbee (0th commit since tag v1.2
+       that points at object deadbee....).
 
 --match <pattern>::
        Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid
@@ -114,7 +117,7 @@ the output shows the reference path as well:
        [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all --abbrev=4 v1.0.5^2
        tags/v1.0.0-21-g975b
 
-       [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all HEAD^
+       [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all --abbrev=4 HEAD^
        heads/lt/describe-7-g975b
 
 With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the
@@ -123,6 +126,13 @@ closest tagname without any suffix:
        [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --abbrev=0 v1.0.5^2
        tags/v1.0.0
 
+Note that the suffix you get if you type these commands today may be
+longer than what Linus saw above when he ran these commands, as your
+git repository may have new commits whose object names begin with
+975b that did not exist back then, and "-g975b" suffix alone may not
+be sufficient to disambiguate these commits.
+
+
 SEARCH STRATEGY
 ---------------