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Asked: 2026-05-23T01:35:57+00:00

If I go to https://github.com/wesm/pandas and click the Download button to download a zip

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If I go to https://github.com/wesm/pandas and click the “Download” button to download a zip (or tar) archive of the repository, the file name of the archive I get is:

wesm-pandas-0.3.0-93-g1d40e65.zip

I can see that wesm-pandas represents the project name, and 0.3.0 represents the project version.

Does 93 represent the number of commits on that branch?

What does g1d40e65 represent?

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  1. Editorial Team

    After the username and the project, the filename is obtained from the output of:

    git describe --always

    Example from the man page:

    [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe parent

    v1.0.4-14-g2414721

    i.e. the current head of my “parent”
    branch is based on v1.0.4, but since
    it has a few commits on top of that,
    describe has added the number of
    additional commits (“14”) and an
    abbreviated object name for the commit
    itself (“2414721”) at the end.

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-describe.html

    So in your case, 93 is the number of commits since 0.3.0 and the hex after g is the sha1 of the latest commit

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