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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-show-ref.txt | 16 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt index 5973a8251..2355aa5e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git-show-ref' [-q|--quiet] [--verify] [-h|--head] [-d|--dereference] [-s|--hash] [--abbrev] [--tags] [--heads] [--] <pattern>... +'git-show-ref' --exclude-existing[=pattern] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -19,6 +20,9 @@ commit IDs. Results can be filtered using a pattern and tags can be dereferenced into object IDs. Additionally, it can be used to test whether a particular ref exists. +The --exclude-existing form is a filter that does the inverse, it shows the +refs from stdin that don't exist in the local repository. + Use of this utility is encouraged in favor of directly accessing files under in the `.git` directory. @@ -61,6 +65,18 @@ OPTIONS Do not print any results to stdout. When combined with '--verify' this can be used to silently check if a reference exists. +--exclude-existing, --exclude-existing=pattern:: + + Make git-show-ref act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the + form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the + following actions on each: + (1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any; + (2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname; + (3) warn if refname is not a well-formed refname and skip; + (4) ignore if refname is a ref that exists in the local repository; + (5) otherwise output the line. + + <pattern>:: Show references matching one or more patterns. |