GIT checking out code from output of "git describe"

Question

I am thinking about using git describe to generate automated version numbers. As suggest here.

My question is that if I get o/p of git describe as v2.0-64-g835c907, how can I checkout that particular revision number using git in future?

Answer 1

If I understand correctly this may be what you want:

git checkout `git describe`

Answer 2

You can just do

git checkout v2.0-64-g835c907

The output from git describe can be used as a reference to a commit itself