git-rev-parse --symbolic-full-name

[git.git] / Documentation / git-rev-parse.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
index 329fce0aab417e5fe02845bd21b693f5200b3634..0cedc137288ad4ca87839c6daa959a104fe6dc2d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -70,6 +70,13 @@ OPTIONS
        possible '{caret}' prefix); this option makes them output in a
        form as close to the original input as possible.
 
+--symbolic-full-name::
+       This is similar to \--symbolic, but it omits input that
+       are not refs (i.e. branch or tag names; or more
+       explicitly disambiguating "heads/master" form, when you
+       want to name the "master" branch when there is an
+       unfortunately named tag "master"), and show them as full
+       refnames (e.g. "refs/heads/master").
 
 --all::
        Show all refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs`.