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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-19 23:16:31 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-19 23:16:31 +0400 |
| commit | 3ae5d5016e71a206be1f79fe873a2016ed56d7d1 (patch) | |
| tree | 5f04e5c18cb3590fa470d71a665e48dd3e01d617 /Documentation | |
| parent | 9adf272a38f3ac79c9f241dc348546fb0d5694ce (diff) | |
| parent | 52291497d1ea112137237e6c719e832599eab526 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'gp/describe-match-uses-glob-pattern'
The syntax of the pattern given to the "--match=<pattern>" argument
to "git describe" was not documented to be a glob.
* gp/describe-match-uses-glob-pattern:
describe: Document --match pattern format
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-describe.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 32da244fd5..3c81e85ec5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -81,8 +81,9 @@ OPTIONS that points at object deadbee....). --match <pattern>:: - Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid - leaking private tags made from the repository). + Only consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern, + excluding the "refs/tags/" prefix. This can be used to avoid + leaking private tags from the repository. --always:: Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback. |