[PATCH] doc: enhance git describe --tags help

From: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Date: Sep 28, 2008, 15:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20080928151259.GJ5302@artemis.corp>
In-Reply-To: <20080928150318.GI5302@artemis.corp>

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
---
 Documentation/git-describe.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index c4dbc2a..9cc8c2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ OPTIONS
 
 --tags::
 	Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any tag
-	found in `.git/refs/tags`.
+	found in `.git/refs/tags`. Though if an annotated tag is found in the
+	ancestry, it will always be preferred to lightweight tags.
 
 --contains::
 	Instead of finding the tag that predates the commit, find

-- 
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