Merge branch 'sb/describe-long'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-describe.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 9c7a0323429af93520026374620f5620d79e8cb6..d9aa2f29809eb07385468edd2587daf55339389a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -45,12 +45,26 @@ 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
        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 <pattern>::
        Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid
        leaking private tags made from the repository).
@@ -127,4 +141,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite