* [PATCH] describe: Document --match pattern format
@ 2013-02-25 5:29 Greg Price
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From: Greg Price @ 2013-02-25 5:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git; +Cc: Junio C Hamano
It's not clear in git-describe(1) what kind of "pattern" should be
passed to --match. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
---
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.
--
1.7.11.3
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