summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorGreg Price <price@MIT.EDU>2013-02-25 00:34:14 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-02-24 22:23:32 -0800
commit48dfe969fc703f1f77f8944bbef033e58b815634 (patch)
tree8d256eb8da7082fdb41be0e19fc5d8776e38fb92
parentdff9f8835f2f2820c4e7109d242cb06b39f7d065 (diff)
downloadgit-48dfe969fc703f1f77f8944bbef033e58b815634.tar.gz
Fix ".git/refs" stragglers
A couple of references still survive to .git/refs as a tree of all refs. Fix one in docs, one in a -h message, one in a -h message quoted in docs. Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/gitcli.txt9
-rw-r--r--builtin/describe.c4
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e452ff89ba..91f37be127 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ core.sharedRepository::
core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
- and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default.
+ and might match multiple refs in the repository. True by default.
core.compression::
An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level.
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 3bc1500eda..d59a5ad1ac 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -107,13 +107,14 @@ couple of magic command line options:
---------------------------------------------
$ git describe -h
usage: git describe [options] <committish>*
+ or: git describe [options] --dirty
--contains find the tag that comes after the commit
--debug debug search strategy on stderr
- --all use any ref in .git/refs
- --tags use any tag in .git/refs/tags
- --abbrev [<n>] use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
- --candidates <n> consider <n> most recent tags (default: 10)
+ --all use any ref
+ --tags use any tag, even unannotated
+ --long always use long format
+ --abbrev[=<n>] use <n> digits to display SHA-1s
---------------------------------------------
--help-all::
diff --git a/builtin/describe.c b/builtin/describe.c
index 04c185b1fb..ca084c675e 100644
--- a/builtin/describe.c
+++ b/builtin/describe.c
@@ -402,8 +402,8 @@ int cmd_describe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
struct option options[] = {
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "contains", &contains, N_("find the tag that comes after the commit")),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "debug", &debug, N_("debug search strategy on stderr")),
- OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "all", &all, N_("use any ref in .git/refs")),
- OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "tags", &tags, N_("use any tag in .git/refs/tags")),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "all", &all, N_("use any ref")),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "tags", &tags, N_("use any tag, even unannotated")),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "long", &longformat, N_("always use long format")),
OPT__ABBREV(&abbrev),
OPT_SET_INT(0, "exact-match", &max_candidates,