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Fix Documentation for git-describe
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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>
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr authored and Junio C Hamano committed Jan 23, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -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>::
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