From 52291497d1ea112137237e6c719e832599eab526 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:29:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] describe: Document --match pattern format

It's not clear in git-describe(1) what kind of "pattern" should be
passed to --match.  Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-describe.txt | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index 72d6bb612b..711040d2f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -81,8 +81,9 @@ OPTIONS
 	that points at object deadbee....).
 
 --match <pattern>::
-	Only consider tags matching the given pattern (can be used to avoid
-	leaking private tags made from the repository).
+	Only consider tags matching the given `glob(7)` pattern,
+	excluding the "refs/tags/" prefix.  This can be used to avoid
+	leaking private tags from the repository.
 
 --always::
 	Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback.
-- 
2.40.0