It will print just a "+" sign appended to the found tag, if there
are commits between the tag and the supplied commit.

It's useful when you just need a simple output to know if the
supplied commit is an exact match or not.
---
 builtin/describe.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/describe.c b/builtin/describe.c
index ee6a3b9..3a5c052 100644
--- a/builtin/describe.c
+++ b/builtin/describe.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ static int have_util;
 static const char *pattern;
 static int always;
 static const char *dirty;
+static int simple_abbrev = 0;
 
 /* diff-index command arguments to check if working tree is dirty. */
 static const char *diff_index_args[] = {
@@ -378,8 +379,12 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
        }
 
        display_name(all_matches[0].name);
-       if (abbrev)
-               show_suffix(all_matches[0].depth, cmit->object.sha1);
+       if (abbrev) {
+               if (simple_abbrev)
+                       printf("+");
+               else
+                       show_suffix(all_matches[0].depth, cmit->object.sha1);
+       }
        if (dirty)
                printf("%s", dirty);
        printf("\n");
@@ -388,6 +393,16 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
                clear_commit_marks(cmit, -1);
 }
 
+static int parse_opt_abbrev_for_describe_cb(const struct option *opt, const 
char *arg, int unset)
+{
+       if (arg && !strncmp(arg, "+", 1)) {
+               simple_abbrev = 1;
+               return 0;
+       }
+
+       return parse_opt_abbrev_cb(opt, arg, unset);
+}
+
 int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
        int contains = 0;
@@ -398,7 +413,6 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char 
*prefix)
                OPT_BOOL(0, "tags",       &tags, N_("use any tag, even 
unannotated")),
                OPT_BOOL(0, "long",       &longformat, N_("always use long 
format")),
                OPT_BOOL(0, "first-parent", &first_parent, N_("only follow 
first parent")),
-               OPT__ABBREV(&abbrev),
                OPT_SET_INT(0, "exact-match", &max_candidates,
                            N_("only output exact matches"), 0),
                OPT_INTEGER(0, "candidates", &max_candidates,
@@ -410,6 +424,8 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char 
*prefix)
                {OPTION_STRING, 0, "dirty",  &dirty, N_("mark"),
                        N_("append <mark> on dirty working tree (default: 
\"-dirty\")"),
                        PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t) "-dirty"},
+               {OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "abbrev", &abbrev, N_("n"), N_("use <n> 
digits to display SHA-1s"),
+                       PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, &parse_opt_abbrev_for_describe_cb, 0},
                OPT_END(),
        };
 
@@ -425,8 +441,8 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char 
*prefix)
 
        save_commit_buffer = 0;
 
-       if (longformat && abbrev == 0)
-               die(_("--long is incompatible with --abbrev=0"));
+       if (longformat && (abbrev == 0 || simple_abbrev))
+               die(_("--long is incompatible with --abbrev=+ or --abbrev=0"));
 
        if (contains) {
                struct argv_array args;
-- 
1.9.3

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