OPTIONS
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-<committish>::
- The object name of the committish.
+<committish>...::
+ Committish object names to describe.
--all::
Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref
Automatically implies --tags.
--abbrev=<n>::
- Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the
+ Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
--candidates=<n>::
The hash suffix is "-g" + 7-char abbreviation for the tip commit
of parent (which was `2414721b194453f058079d897d13c4e377f92dc6`).
-Doing a `git-describe` on a tag-name will just show the tag name:
+Doing a 'git-describe' on a tag-name will just show the tag name:
[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe v1.0.4
v1.0.4
SEARCH STRATEGY
---------------
-For each committish supplied, `git-describe` will first look for
+For each committish supplied, 'git-describe' will first look for
a tag which tags exactly that commit. Annotated tags will always
be preferred over lightweight tags, and tags with newer dates will
always be preferred over tags with older dates. If an exact match
is found, its name will be output and searching will stop.
-If an exact match was not found, `git-describe` will walk back
+If an exact match was not found, 'git-describe' will walk back
through the commit history to locate an ancestor commit which
has been tagged. The ancestor's tag will be output along with an
abbreviation of the input committish's SHA1.
Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, but somewhat
-butchered by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>. Later significantly
+butchered by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>. Later significantly
updated by Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
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