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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-03-26 12:40:04 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-03-26 12:40:04 -0700
commitc17866d7b693771e558d972b52d786c29e7ddd76 (patch)
tree19bea4e03f0bdfc143c0afa8564fda620ded3d1f /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'jc/maint-reflog-expire-clean-mark-typofix' into maint (diff)
parentFix ".git/refs" stragglers (diff)
downloadtgif-c17866d7b693771e558d972b52d786c29e7ddd76.tar.xz
Merge branch 'gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs' into maint
* gp/avoid-explicit-mention-of-dot-git-refs: Fix ".git/refs" stragglers
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcli.txt9
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index bbba728d09..b3023b8172 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ core.sharedRepository::
core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
If true, Git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
- and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default.
+ and might match multiple refs in the repository. True by default.
core.compression::
An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index dc9e617a10..9ac5088acd 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -107,13 +107,14 @@ couple of magic command line options:
---------------------------------------------
$ git describe -h
usage: git describe [options] <committish>*
+ or: git describe [options] --dirty
--contains find the tag that comes after the commit
--debug debug search strategy on stderr
- --all use any ref in .git/refs
- --tags use any tag in .git/refs/tags
- --abbrev [<n>] use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
- --candidates <n> consider <n> most recent tags (default: 10)
+ --all use any ref
+ --tags use any tag, even unannotated
+ --long always use long format
+ --abbrev[=<n>] use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
---------------------------------------------
--help-all::