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+2013-10-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>
+
+	maint.mk: restore functionality removed by recent change...
+	Sunday's change, v0.0-8062-g6b24f60, may have appeared correct from
+	the context of a shallow-cloned gnulib repository: "git describe"
+	would fail in such a directory.  However, that change made it so
+	the reported gnulib revision no longer includes the version number
+	or a commit count, even when run from a full clone.
+	* top/maint.mk (gnulib-version): Use the full "git describe"
+	output when possible, e.g., the form above, rather than the
+	abbreviated, no-tag, no-commit-count string, and fall back to
+	using a 10-byte hash, rather than the default minimal-length
+	hash prefix, since while the minimal-length one may be fine today,
+	it is likely not to be unique for very long.
+
 2013-10-26  Jim Meyering  <meyering@fb.com>
 
 	maint.mk: fix "release" target to build _version