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diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 72d6bb612b..28e5ec0e2c 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. @@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ closest tagname without any suffix: Note that the suffix you get if you type these commands today may be longer than what Linus saw above when he ran these commands, as your -git repository may have new commits whose object names begin with +Git repository may have new commits whose object names begin with 975b that did not exist back then, and "-g975b" suffix alone may not be sufficient to disambiguate these commits. @@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ is found, its name will be output and searching will stop. If an exact match was not found, 'git describe' will walk back through the commit history to locate an ancestor commit which has been tagged. The ancestor's tag will be output along with an -abbreviation of the input committish's SHA1. +abbreviation of the input committish's SHA-1. If multiple tags were found during the walk then the tag which has the fewest commits different from the input committish will be |