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Help: prefer commit hashes in commit references

Ben Boeckel requested to merge ben.boeckel/cmake:commit-ref-in-prose into master

The logic is that the describe output is readily available using git tag --contains locally. In addition, for a hypothetical commit which landed in both v3.9.4 and v3.10.1, there is no "better" tag to refer to. since v3.10.0's relation to such a commit is unclear either way.

Also mention that a Fixes trailer is preferred if the mention is just to indicate a commit which introduced an error rather than writing a complete sentence about it.

Thought it might be worth doing this in light of this week's Git Rev News where this covered.

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