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diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt index f4429bdc68..3c45895299 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ git-show-ref - List references in a local repository SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git show-ref' [-q|--quiet] [--verify] [-h|--head] [-d|--dereference] +'git show-ref' [-q|--quiet] [--verify] [--head] [-d|--dereference] [-s|--hash[=<n>]] [--abbrev[=<n>]] [--tags] - [--heads] [--] <pattern>... + [--heads] [--] [<pattern>...] 'git show-ref' --exclude-existing[=<pattern>] < ref-list DESCRIPTION @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ the `.git` directory. OPTIONS ------- --h:: --head:: Show the HEAD reference. @@ -73,9 +72,9 @@ OPTIONS --exclude-existing[=<pattern>]:: - Make 'git-show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the - form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the - following actions on each: + Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the + form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}\{\})?$" + and performs the following actions on each: (1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any; (2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname; (3) warn if refname is not a well-formed refname and skip; @@ -85,7 +84,11 @@ OPTIONS <pattern>...:: - Show references matching one or more patterns. + Show references matching one or more patterns. Patterns are matched from + the end of the full name, and only complete parts are matched, e.g. + 'master' matches 'refs/heads/master', 'refs/remotes/origin/master', + 'refs/tags/jedi/master' but not 'refs/heads/mymaster' nor + 'refs/remotes/master/jedi'. OUTPUT ------ @@ -136,7 +139,7 @@ When using the '--verify' flag, the command requires an exact path: will only match the exact branch called "master". -If nothing matches, 'git-show-ref' will return an error code of 1, +If nothing matches, 'git show-ref' will return an error code of 1, and in the case of verification, it will show an error message. For scripting, you can ask it to be quiet with the "--quiet" flag, which @@ -164,14 +167,15 @@ flag, so you can do to get a listing of all tags together with what they dereference. +FILES +----- +`.git/refs/*`, `.git/packed-refs` + SEE ALSO -------- -linkgit:git-ls-remote[1] - -AUTHORS -------- -Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>. -Man page by Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>. +linkgit:git-ls-remote[1], +linkgit:git-update-ref[1], +linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5] GIT --- |