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#! /usr/bin/env python | |
""" Convert values between RGB hex codes and xterm-256 color codes. | |
Nice long listing of all 256 colors and their codes. Useful for | |
developing console color themes, or even script output schemes. | |
Resources: | |
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-bit_color | |
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code |
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# The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a 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. | |
git describe | |
# With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the closest tagname without any suffix: | |
git describe --abbrev=0 | |
# other examples |