Merge branch 'jc/diff-relative'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-describe.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 0742152b811e23ea304feb368c8d949785e2fdfb..fbb40a29165a47e627358b5b9f8afb50e84958cd 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -45,12 +45,21 @@ OPTIONS
        candidates to describe the input committish consider
        up to <n> candidates.  Increasing <n> above 10 will take
        slightly longer but may produce a more accurate result.
+       An <n> of 0 will cause only exact matches to be output.
+
+--exact-match::
+       Only output exact matches (a tag directly references the
+       supplied commit).  This is a synonym for --candidates=0.
 
 --debug::
        Verbosely display information about the searching strategy
        being employed to standard error.  The tag name will still
        be printed to standard out.
 
+--match <pattern>::
+       Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid
+       leaking private tags made from the repository).
+
 EXAMPLES
 --------