feature: add --describe support for git-describe options - #1436
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In my case - working with multiple Linux kernel remote trees - the default Ref: reported for a commit isn't helpful since it shows a prior tag rather than the containing tag. In almost all cases I need to see the equivalent of: git describe --contains and additionally need to filter the returned tags with e.g: --exclude 'next-*' or --match ... This feature adds the command-line option --describe= that accepts additional git-describe options and appends them to the args passed to git-describe. An example usage: tig --describe="--exclude 'next-*' --contains" v6.18..v6.19 drivers/iommu/intel Signed-off-by: Tj <hacker@iam.tj>
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In my case - working with multiple Linux kernel remote trees - the default Ref: reported for a commit isn't helpful since it shows a prior tag rather than the containing tag.
In almost all cases I need to see the equivalent of:
git describe --contains
and additionally need to filter the returned tags with e.g:
--exclude 'next-*'
or
--match ...
This feature adds the command-line option --describe= that accepts additional git-describe options and appends them to the args passed to git-describe.
An example usage:
tig --describe="--exclude 'next-*' --contains" v6.18..v6.19 drivers/iommu/intel
Closes: #1435