From 52291497d1ea112137237e6c719e832599eab526 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Price Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:29:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] describe: Document --match pattern format It's not clear in git-describe(1) what kind of "pattern" should be passed to --match. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Greg Price Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- 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 72d6bb612b..711040d2f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -81,8 +81,9 @@ OPTIONS that points at object deadbee....). --match :: - 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. -- 2.11.4.GIT