From: Andy Parkins Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:28:55 +0000 (+0000) Subject: If abbrev is set to zero in git-describe, don't add the unique suffix X-Git-Tag: v1.5.0-rc3~43 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f127404c45eff139037834a6464b68fbe1798e16;p=git.git If abbrev is set to zero in git-describe, don't add the unique suffix When on a non-tag commit, git-describe normally outputs descriptions of the form v1.0.0-g1234567890 Some scripts (for example the update hook script) might just want to know the name of the nearest tag, so they then have to do x=$(git-describe HEAD | sed 's/-g*//') This is costly, but more importantly is fragile as it is relying on the output format of git-describe, which we would then have to maintain forever. This patch adds support for setting the --abbrev option to zero. In that case git-describe does as it always has, but outputs only the nearest found tag instead of a completely unique name. This means that scripts would not have to parse the output format and won't need changing if the git-describe suffix is ever changed. Signed-off-by: Andy Parkins Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/builtin-describe.c b/builtin-describe.c index 4921eee9e..f3ac2d5f8 100644 --- a/builtin-describe.c +++ b/builtin-describe.c @@ -188,8 +188,11 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one) sha1_to_hex(gave_up_on->object.sha1)); } } - printf("%s-g%s\n", all_matches[0].name->path, - find_unique_abbrev(cmit->object.sha1, abbrev)); + if (abbrev == 0) + printf("%s\n", all_matches[0].name->path ); + else + printf("%s-g%s\n", all_matches[0].name->path, + find_unique_abbrev(cmit->object.sha1, abbrev)); if (!last_one) clear_commit_marks(cmit, -1); @@ -212,7 +215,7 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) tags = 1; else if (!strncmp(arg, "--abbrev=", 9)) { abbrev = strtoul(arg + 9, NULL, 10); - if (abbrev < MINIMUM_ABBREV || 40 < abbrev) + if (abbrev != 0 && (abbrev < MINIMUM_ABBREV || 40 < abbrev)) abbrev = DEFAULT_ABBREV; } else if (!strncmp(arg, "--candidates=", 13)) {