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authorShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2008-02-24 03:07:31 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-02-24 10:01:24 -0800
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Teach git-describe --exact-match to avoid expensive tag searches
Sometimes scripts want (or need) the annotated tag name that exactly matches a specific commit, or no tag at all. In such cases it can be difficult to determine if the output of `git describe $commit` is a real tag name or a tag+abbreviated commit. A common idiom is to run git-describe twice: if test $(git describe $commit) = $(git describe --abbrev=0 $commit) ... but this is a huge waste of time if the caller is just going to pick a different method to describe $commit or abort because it is not exactly an annotated tag. Setting the maximum number of candidates to 0 allows the caller to ask for only a tag that directly points at the supplied commit, or to have git-describe abort if no such item exists. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ OPTIONS
candidates to describe the input committish consider
up to <n> candidates. Increasing <n> above 10 will take
slightly longer but may produce a more accurate result.
+ An <n> of 0 will cause only exact matches to be output.
+
+--exact-match::
+ Only output exact matches (a tag directly references the
+ supplied commit). This is a synonym for --candidates=0.
--debug::
Verbosely display information about the searching strategy