From 518120e3487a00148f8001454f1e76e484442a22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Santi=20B=C3=A9jar?= Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:43:33 +0100 Subject: git-describe: --long shows the object name even for a tagged commit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is useful when you want to see parts of the commit object name in "describe" output, even when the commit in question happens to be a tagged version. Instead of just emitting the tag name, it will describe such a commit as v1.2-0-deadbeef (0th commit since tag v1.2 that points at object deadbeef....). Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-describe.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/git-describe.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index 1c3dfb40c..270b80875 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ OPTIONS being employed to standard error. The tag name will still be printed to standard out. +--long:: + Always output the long format (the tag, the number of commits + and the abbreviated commit name) even when it matches a tag. + This is useful when you want to see parts of the commit object name + in "describe" output, even when the commit in question happens to be + a tagged version. Instead of just emitting the tag name, it will + describe such a commit as v1.2-0-deadbeef (0th commit since tag v1.2 + that points at object deadbeef....). + --match :: Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid leaking private tags made from the repository). -- cgit v1.2.1