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123 lines
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git-describe(1)
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===============
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NAME
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----
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git-describe - Show the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git-describe' [--all] [--tags] [--abbrev=<n>] <committish>...
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a
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commit, and if the commit itself is pointed at by the tag, shows
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the tag. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of
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additional commits and the abbreviated object name of the commit.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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<committish>::
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The object name of the committish.
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--all::
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Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref
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found in `.git/refs/`.
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--tags::
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Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any tag
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found in `.git/refs/tags`.
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--abbrev=<n>::
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Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the
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abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
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--candidates=<n>::
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Instead of considering only the 10 most recent tags as
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candidates to describe the input committish consider
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up to <n> candidates. Increasing <n> above 10 will take
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slightly longer but may produce a more accurate result.
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--debug::
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Verbosely display information about the searching strategy
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being employed to standard error. The tag name will still
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be printed to standard out.
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EXAMPLES
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--------
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With something like git.git current tree, I get:
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[torvalds@g5 git]$ git-describe parent
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v1.0.4-14-g2414721
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i.e. the current head of my "parent" branch is based on v1.0.4,
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but since it has a handful commits on top of that,
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describe has added the number of additional commits ("14") and
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an abbreviated object name for the commit itself ("2414721")
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at the end.
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The number of additional commits is the number
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of commits which would be displayed by "git log v1.0.4..parent".
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The hash suffix is "-g" + 7-char abbreviation for the tip commit
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of parent (which was `2414721b194453f058079d897d13c4e377f92dc6`).
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Doing a "git-describe" on a tag-name will just show the tag name:
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[torvalds@g5 git]$ git-describe v1.0.4
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v1.0.4
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With --all, the command can use branch heads as references, so
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the output shows the reference path as well:
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[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all --abbrev=4 v1.0.5^2
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tags/v1.0.0-21-g975b
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[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --all HEAD^
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heads/lt/describe-7-g975b
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With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the
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closest tagname without any suffix:
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[torvalds@g5 git]$ git describe --abbrev=0 v1.0.5^2
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tags/v1.0.0
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SEARCH STRATEGY
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---------------
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For each committish supplied "git describe" will first look for
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a tag which tags exactly that commit. Annotated tags will always
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be preferred over lightweight tags, and tags with newer dates will
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always be preferred over tags with older dates. If an exact match
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is found, its name will be output and searching will stop.
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If an exact match was not found "git describe" will walk back
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through the commit history to locate an ancestor commit which
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has been tagged. The ancestor's tag will be output along with an
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abbreviation of the input committish's SHA1.
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If multiple tags were found during the walk then the tag which
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has the fewest commits different from the input committish will be
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selected and output. Here fewest commits different is defined as
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the number of commits which would be shown by "git log tag..input"
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will be the smallest number of commits possible.
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Author
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------
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, but somewhat
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butchered by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>. Later significantly
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updated by Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>.
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Documentation
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--------------
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Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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