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diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 2f97916781..6fc5323ee6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit SYNOPSIS -------- +[verse] 'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] <committish>... +'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] --dirty[=<mark>] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -27,6 +29,11 @@ OPTIONS <committish>...:: Committish object names to describe. +--dirty[=<mark>]:: + Describe the working tree. + It means describe HEAD and appends <mark> (`-dirty` by + default) if the working tree is dirty. + --all:: Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref found in `.git/refs/`. This option enables matching @@ -99,7 +106,7 @@ of commits which would be displayed by "git log v1.0.4..parent". The hash suffix is "-g" + 7-char abbreviation for the tip commit of parent (which was `2414721b194453f058079d897d13c4e377f92dc6`). -Doing a 'git-describe' on a tag-name will just show the tag name: +Doing a 'git describe' on a tag-name will just show the tag name: [torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe v1.0.4 v1.0.4 @@ -129,13 +136,13 @@ be sufficient to disambiguate these commits. SEARCH STRATEGY --------------- -For each committish supplied, 'git-describe' will first look for +For each committish supplied, 'git describe' will first look for a tag which tags exactly that commit. Annotated tags will always be preferred over lightweight tags, and tags with newer dates will always be preferred over tags with older dates. If an exact match is found, its name will be output and searching will stop. -If an exact match was not found, 'git-describe' will walk back +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. |