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[Yawar Amin]

Hi,

On 2013-05-28, at 12:22, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> [...]
> 
>  mythtv branch devel/logging updated by danielk. v0.27-pre2-1194-gce1462b
>  packaging branch master updated by nigel. v0.26-33-ge758033
>  mythtv branch master updated by paulh. v0.27-pre2-1124-ge48d898
> 
> The first symbol is the repo (in our case gnucash, gnucash-htdocs, etc).
> Then "branch" and the branch-name.  Then the operation (updated) and the
> user (by ...).  And then it looks like there's a tag+commit-version.
> I'm not 100% sure how that's created by them.  The decimal-looking
> number is definitely an incremental, because I saw some commits with
> sequentials.  So it looks like it's "tag"-"some sequence"-g"git-shorthash"

It's output from 'git describe': the last tag on that branch, dash, the number of commits since that tag, dash, the short commit ID of the commit being described. Shorthand way of orienting yourself in any repo.

Regards,

Yawar
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