SYNOPSIS

git describe [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] <committish>…
git describe [--all] [--tags] [--contains] [--abbrev=<n>] --dirty[=<mark>]

DESCRIPTION

The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit. If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is shown. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object and the abbreviated object name of the most recent commit.

By default (without --all or --tags) git describe only shows annotated tags. For more information about creating annotated tags see the -a and -s options to git-tag(1).

OPTIONS

<committish>…: Committish object names to describe.
--dirty[=<mark>]: Describe the working tree. It means describe HEAD and appends <mark> (-dirty by default) if the working tree is dirty.
--all: Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any ref found in refs/ namespace. This option enables matching any known branch, remote-tracking branch, or lightweight tag.
--tags: Instead of using only the annotated tags, use any tag found in refs/tags namespace. This option enables matching a lightweight (non-annotated) tag.
--contains: Instead of finding the tag that predates the commit, find the tag that comes after the commit, and thus contains it. Automatically implies --tags.
--abbrev=<n>: Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the abbreviated object name, use <n> digits, or as many digits as needed to form a unique object name. An <n> of 0 will suppress long format, only showing the closest tag.
--candidates=<n>: Instead of considering only the 10 most recent tags as candidates to describe the input committish consider up to <n> candidates. Increasing <n> above 10 will take slightly longer but may produce a more accurate result. An <n> of 0 will cause only exact matches to be output.
--exact-match: Only output exact matches (a tag directly references the supplied commit). This is a synonym for --candidates=0.
--debug: Verbosely display information about the searching strategy being employed to standard error. The tag name will still be printed to standard out.
--long: Always output the long format (the tag, the number of commits and the abbreviated commit name) even when it matches a tag. This is useful when you want to see parts of the commit object name in "describe" output, even when the commit in question happens to be a tagged version. Instead of just emitting the tag name, it will describe such a commit as v1.2-0-gdeadbee (0th commit since tag v