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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-25 13:45:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-25 13:45:33 -0700 |
| commit | 402c2a7ea158eb43015e9c6a517be95c8e35192e (patch) | |
| tree | 5ad00faf977fa03f350fb405b183f6fcd6b6a0c2 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'nd/doc-index-format' into maint-1.8.1 (diff) | |
| parent | describe: Document --match pattern format (diff) | |
| download | tgif-402c2a7ea158eb43015e9c6a517be95c8e35192e.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'gp/describe-match-uses-glob-pattern' into maint-1.8.1
The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob
pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation.
* gp/describe-match-uses-glob-pattern:
describe: Document --match pattern format
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -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. |