Merge branch 'maint'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 2f979167819f0e4500b998b41092e18ef053cead..6fc5323ee6a9d3cd22f8c68ebaf514f26c82f684 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] <committish>...
+'git describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] --dirty[=<mark>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -27,6 +29,11 @@ OPTIONS
 <committish>...::
        Committish object names to describe.
 
+--dirty[=<mark>]::
+       Describe the working tree.
+       It means describe HEAD and appends <mark> (`-dirty` by
+       default) if the working tree is dirty.
+
 --all::
        Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref
        found in `.git/refs/`.  This option enables matching
@@ -99,7 +106,7 @@ of commits which would be displayed by "git log v1.0.4..parent".
 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
@@ -129,13 +136,13 @@ be sufficient to disambiguate these commits.
 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.