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Documentation/git-describe.txt: make description more readable
authorIan Hilt <ian.hilt@gmail.com>
Wed, 14 May 2008 18:30:55 +0000 (14:30 -0400)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 14 May 2008 18:47:03 +0000 (11:47 -0700)
Signed-off-by: Ian Hilt <ian.hilt@gmail.com>
Credit-to: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-describe.txt

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@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a
-commit, and if the commit itself is pointed at by the tag, shows
-the tag.  Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of
-additional commits and the abbreviated object name of the commit.
+commit.  If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is
+shown.  Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of
+additional commits on top of the tagged object and the
+abbreviated object name of the most recent commit.
 
 
 OPTIONS