From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:09:41 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: * HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
X-Git-Tag: v1.12.0b~470
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=adf64b4bfdc8e58ff9d3f927ded85b2329cb6bb6;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fautomake.git

* HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 48c6e79..7b64d55 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-09-13  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
+
+	* HACKING: Hint at old commits with `git describe' output.
+
 2010-09-12  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
 	Fix regression in test `colon4.test'.
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
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--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -143,6 +143,8 @@
   the active branches descending from the buggy commit.  This offers a
   simple way to fix the bug consistently and effectively.
 
+* When referring to older commits, use 'git describe' output as pointer.
+
 * There may be a number of longer-lived feature branches for new developments.
   They should be based off of a common ancestor of all active branches to
   which the feature should be merged later.  The next branch may serve as