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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-show-ref.txt')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt index 75780d7d63..be0ec189af 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt @@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ OPTIONS --exclude-existing[=<pattern>]:: Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the - form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the - following actions on each: + form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}\{\})?$" + 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; @@ -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 ------ |