From: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:19:02 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Mention `git describe` in my Git notes.
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Mention `git describe` in my Git notes.
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diff --git a/posts/Git/notes.org b/posts/Git/notes.org
index d9dd589..73fee98 100644
--- a/posts/Git/notes.org
+++ b/posts/Git/notes.org
@@ -794,7 +794,11 @@ previous commit
     : 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99~940
 
 Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions
-before v0.99.
+before v0.99.  A similar command is =git describe=, which finds the
+latest tag in a commit's history and uses that to construct a name:
+
+    : $ git describe v1.0.5^2
+    : tags/v1.0.0-21-g975b31d
 
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