From 48dfe969fc703f1f77f8944bbef033e58b815634 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:34:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
Documentation/config.txt | 2 +-
Documentation/gitcli.txt | 9 +++++----
builtin/describe.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e452ff89ba1..91f37be1274 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 3bc1500eda5..d59a5ad1acb 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 04c185b1fbd..ca084c675ef 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,