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| author |  Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU> | 2013-02-25 00:29:01 -0500 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-24 22:24:48 -0800 |
| commit | 52291497d1ea112137237e6c719e832599eab526 (patch) | |
| tree | 16ec3694d0ee358685529470d0b9dcd1651e75eb | |
| parent | Git 1.8.1.4 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-52291497d1ea112137237e6c719e832599eab526.tar.xz | |
describe: Document --match pattern format
It's not clear in git-describe(1) what kind of "pattern" should be
passed to --match. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-describe.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 72d6bb612b..711040d2f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -81,8 +81,9 @@ OPTIONS that points at object deadbee....). --match <pattern>:: - Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid - leaking private tags made from the repository). + Only consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern, + excluding the "refs/tags/" prefix. This can be used to avoid + leaking private tags from the repository. --always:: Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback. |