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diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt index 3f9d9c6db3..5dbcd47fec 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS -d:: --dereference:: - Dereference tags into object IDs as well. They will be shown with "^{}" + Dereference tags into object IDs as well. They will be shown with "{caret}{}" appended. -s:: @@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ OPTIONS --exclude-existing[=<pattern>]:: Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the - form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the - following actions on each: - (1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any; + form "`^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^{})?$`" + and performs the following actions on each: + (1) strip "{caret}{}" 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; (4) ignore if refname is a ref that exists in the local repository; @@ -84,7 +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 ------ @@ -163,14 +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 --- |