Fix Documentation for git-describe
authorBoyd Stephen Smith Jr <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:26:25 +0000 (12:26 -0600)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:17:04 +0000 (00:17 -0800)
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
index c4dbc2ae342833561080f7a18a93bcf5ac5a0dd3..59a6fd17ab3566986aa2f4b12b2ce034aa2c5a97 100644 (file)
@@ -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>::