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diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 0742152b81..fbb40a2916 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -45,12 +45,21 @@ OPTIONS candidates to describe the input committish consider up to <n> candidates. Increasing <n> above 10 will take slightly longer but may produce a more accurate result. + An <n> of 0 will cause only exact matches to be output. + +--exact-match:: + Only output exact matches (a tag directly references the + supplied commit). This is a synonym for --candidates=0. --debug:: Verbosely display information about the searching strategy being employed to standard error. The tag name will still be printed to standard out. +--match <pattern>:: + Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid + leaking private tags made from the repository). + EXAMPLES -------- |