From: Jonh Wendell <jonh.wendell@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jonh Wendell <jonh.wendell@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] describe: Add documentation for "--abbrev=+"
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:26:44 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1410532004-22769-3-git-send-email-jonh.wendell@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410532004-22769-1-git-send-email-jonh.wendell@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonh Wendell <jonh.wendell@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/git-describe.txt | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index d20ca40..e291770 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ OPTIONS
abbreviated object name, use <n> digits, or as many digits
as needed to form a unique object name. An <n> of 0
will suppress long format, only showing the closest tag.
+ +
+ +
+ A special case of <n> equals to "\+" (without quotes) will print
+ just a "+" sign instead of the whole suffix. This is useful if you
+ only need to know if the supplied <commit-ish> points to an exact
+ match or if there are commits between the tag found and the <commit-ish>.
--candidates=<n>::
Instead of considering only the 10 most recent tags as
--
1.9.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-12 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-12 14:26 [PATCH 0/2] describe: support the syntax "--abbrev=+" Jonh Wendell
2014-09-12 14:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Jonh Wendell
2014-09-14 8:18 ` Jeff King
2014-09-14 8:56 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-09-12 14:26 ` Jonh Wendell [this message]
2014-09-14 8:23 ` [PATCH 2/2] describe: Add documentation for "--abbrev=+" Jeff King
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-23 17:13 [PATCH 0/2] describe: support the syntax "--abbrev=+" Jonh Wendell
2014-08-23 17:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] describe: Add documentation for "--abbrev=+" Jonh Wendell
2014-08-24 6:35 ` brian m. carlson
2014-08-24 12:11 ` Jonh Wendell
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