Documentation/gitweb: trivial English fixes

[git.git] / Documentation / git-show-ref.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
index df17d49b87c260c6f5b3fd75d4aad41b77fcf8c3..3c4589529960e013df364c68e4480caa09b744c6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-show-ref.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git show-ref' [-q|--quiet] [--verify] [--head] [-d|--dereference]
             [-s|--hash[=<n>]] [--abbrev[=<n>]] [--tags]
-            [--heads] [--] <pattern>...
+            [--heads] [--] [<pattern>...]
 'git show-ref' --exclude-existing[=<pattern>] < ref-list
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ OPTIONS
 --exclude-existing[=<pattern>]::
 
        Make 'git show-ref' act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
-       form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the
-       following actions on each:
+       form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:{backslash}{caret}\{\})?$"
+       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;
@@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ OPTIONS
 
 <pattern>...::
 
-       Show references matching one or more patterns.
+       Show references matching one or more patterns. Patterns are matched from
+       the end of the full name, and only complete parts are matched, e.g.
+       'master' matches 'refs/heads/master', 'refs/remotes/origin/master',
+       'refs/tags/jedi/master' but not 'refs/heads/mymaster' nor
+       'refs/remotes/master/jedi'.
 
 OUTPUT
 ------
@@ -163,14 +167,15 @@ flag, so you can do
 
 to get a listing of all tags together with what they dereference.
 
+FILES
+-----
+`.git/refs/*`, `.git/packed-refs`
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
-linkgit:git-ls-remote[1]
-
-AUTHORS
--------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>.
-Man page by Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>.
+linkgit:git-ls-remote[1],
+linkgit:git-update-ref[1],
+linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5]
 
 GIT
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