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* [PATCH] Fix ".git/refs" stragglers
@ 2013-02-25  5:34 Greg Price
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From: Greg Price @ 2013-02-25  5:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git; +Cc: Junio C Hamano

A couple of references still survive to .git/refs as a tree
of all refs.  Fix one in docs, one in a -h message, one in
a -h message quoted in docs.

Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
---
 Documentation/config.txt | 2 +-
 Documentation/gitcli.txt | 9 +++++----
 builtin/describe.c       | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index dbb2faf..6eb013a 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ core.sharedRepository::
 
 core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
 	If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
-	and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default.
+	and might match multiple refs in the repository. True by default.
 
 core.compression::
 	An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 3bc1500..d59a5ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -107,13 +107,14 @@ couple of magic command line options:
 ---------------------------------------------
 $ git describe -h
 usage: git describe [options] <committish>*
+   or: git describe [options] --dirty
 
     --contains            find the tag that comes after the commit
     --debug               debug search strategy on stderr
-    --all                 use any ref in .git/refs
-    --tags                use any tag in .git/refs/tags
-    --abbrev [<n>]        use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
-    --candidates <n>      consider <n> most recent tags (default: 10)
+    --all                 use any ref
+    --tags                use any tag, even unannotated
+    --long                always use long format
+    --abbrev[=<n>]        use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
 ---------------------------------------------
 
 --help-all::
diff --git a/builtin/describe.c b/builtin/describe.c
index 90a72af..2ef3f10 100644
--- a/builtin/describe.c
+++ b/builtin/describe.c
@@ -402,8 +402,8 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	struct option options[] = {
 		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "contains",   &contains, N_("find the tag that comes after the commit")),
 		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "debug",      &debug, N_("debug search strategy on stderr")),
-		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "all",        &all, N_("use any ref in .git/refs")),
-		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "tags",       &tags, N_("use any tag in .git/refs/tags")),
+		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "all",        &all, N_("use any ref")),
+		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "tags",       &tags, N_("use any tag, even unannotated")),
 		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "long",       &longformat, N_("always use long format")),
 		OPT__ABBREV(&abbrev),
 		OPT_SET_INT(0, "exact-match", &max_candidates,
-- 
1.7.11.3

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