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-rw-r--r--builtin-describe.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/builtin-describe.c b/builtin-describe.c
index 9c958bd84..05e309f5a 100644
--- a/builtin-describe.c
+++ b/builtin-describe.c
@@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ static void describe(const char *arg, int last_one)
return;
}
+ if (!max_candidates)
+ die("no tag exactly matches '%s'", sha1_to_hex(cmit->object.sha1));
if (debug)
fprintf(stderr, "searching to describe %s\n", arg);
@@ -270,6 +272,8 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "all", &all, "use any ref in .git/refs"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "tags", &tags, "use any tag in .git/refs/tags"),
OPT__ABBREV(&abbrev),
+ OPT_SET_INT(0, "exact-match", &max_candidates,
+ "only output exact matches", 0),
OPT_INTEGER(0, "candidates", &max_candidates,
"consider <n> most recent tags (default: 10)"),
OPT_STRING(0, "match", &pattern, "pattern",
@@ -278,8 +282,8 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
};
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, describe_usage, 0);
- if (max_candidates < 1)
- max_candidates = 1;
+ if (max_candidates < 0)
+ max_candidates = 0;
else if (max_candidates > MAX_TAGS)
max_candidates = MAX_TAGS;