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NAME |
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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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'git-describe' [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] <committish>... |
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DESCRIPTION |
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The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a |
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commit. If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is |
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shown. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of |
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additional commits on top of the tagged object and the |
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abbreviated object name of the most recent commit. |
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OPTIONS |
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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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--contains:: |
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Instead of finding the tag that predates the commit, find |
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the tag that comes after the commit, and thus contains it. |
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Automatically implies --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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An <n> of 0 will cause only exact matches to be output. |
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--exact-match:: |
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Only output exact matches (a tag directly references the |
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supplied commit). This is a synonym for --candidates=0. |
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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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--long:: |
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Always output the long format (the tag, the number of commits |
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and the abbreviated commit name) even when it matches a tag. |
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This is useful when you want to see parts of the commit object name |
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in "describe" output, even when the commit in question happens to be |
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a tagged version. Instead of just emitting the tag name, it will |
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describe such a commit as v1.2-0-deadbeef (0th commit since tag v1.2 |
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that points at object deadbeef....). |
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--match <pattern>:: |
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Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid |
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leaking private tags made from the repository). |
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EXAMPLES |
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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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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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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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Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. |
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GIT |
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Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
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