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diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 1c3dfb40c6..270b808755 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ OPTIONS being employed to standard error. The tag name will still be printed to standard out. +--long:: + Always output the long format (the tag, the number of commits + and the abbreviated commit name) even when it matches a tag. + This is useful when you want to see parts of the commit object name + in "describe" output, even when the commit in question happens to be + a tagged version. Instead of just emitting the tag name, it will + describe such a commit as v1.2-0-deadbeef (0th commit since tag v1.2 + that points at object deadbeef....). + --match <pattern>:: Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid leaking private tags made from the repository). |