From: Jonh Wendell Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:26:44 GMT Subject: [PATCH 2/2] describe: Add documentation for "--abbrev=+" Message-ID: <1410532004-22769-3-git-send-email-jonh.wendell@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1410532004-22769-1-git-send-email-jonh.wendell@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonh Wendell --- Documentation/git-describe.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt index d20ca40..e291770 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt @@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ OPTIONS abbreviated object name, use digits, or as many digits as needed to form a unique object name. An of 0 will suppress long format, only showing the closest tag. + + + + + A special case of equals to "\+" (without quotes) will print + just a "+" sign instead of the whole suffix. This is useful if you + only need to know if the supplied points to an exact + match or if there are commits between the tag found and the . --candidates=:: Instead of considering only the 10 most recent tags as -- 1.9.3