[PATCH] describe: Document --match pattern format
From: Greg Price <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:15
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
It's not clear in git-describe(1) what kind of "pattern" should be passed to --match. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Greg Price <redacted> --- Documentation/git-describe.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 72d6bb6..711040d 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.
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