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Re:Beautify the Git commit hash (have a look at the commit h... by jrockway on Saturday October 01, 2011 @08:29PM (#3061612)
Yeah, but you know people want this so they can write things in their bug tracker like "fixed in r1232" instead of "fixed in 2c4d96d1dc2d12afd486561329a9a7b74d4ae110".
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Re:Beautify the Git commit hash (have a look at the commit h... by stephen on Sunday October 02, 2011 @12:47AM (#3062097)
This will give you r/1232:

https://github.com/stephenh/git-central/blob/master/server/p...

(It makes a tag-per-commit; I'm not saying that's necessarily a good idea, but if you really want revision numbers...)

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Re:Beautify the Git commit hash (have a look at the commit h... by JeremyBanks on Saturday October 01, 2011 @10:26PM (#3061824)
I wouldn't mind "fixed in 981db17b8 (gen 1853)".
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Re:Beautify the Git commit hash (have a look at the commit h... by mullr on Saturday October 01, 2011 @09:25PM (#3061727)
That's what `git describe` is for.
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