On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 02:59:26PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote: > I referred back to the documentation for --decorate: > > --decorate[=short|full|no] > Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown. If short is > specified, the ref name prefixesrefs/heads/, refs/tags/ and > refs/remotes/ will not be printed. If full is specified, the full ref > name (including prefix) will be printed. The default option is short. > > since default is short, and its documented to exclude tag names, I > would expect them to not be there. I also tried removing it to test > but i saw no difference; tag names are still visible. Are you reading that as "if short is specified, then refs whose names are prefixed with refs/heads, refs/tags, etc will be omitted entirely from decoration"? The intent is "if short is specified, then a ref whose names has the prefix of refs/heads, refs/tags, etc, will have that prefix removed when showing it". IOW, the options are: $ git log -1 --no-decorate | head -1 commit 0bc85abb7aa9b24b093253018801a0fb43d01122 $ git log -1 --decorate=short | head -1 commit 0bc85abb7aa9b24b093253018801a0fb43d01122 (HEAD, tag: v1.9.2, origin/maint) $ git log -1 --decorate=full | head -1 commit 0bc85abb7aa9b24b093253018801a0fb43d01122 (HEAD, tag: refs/tags/v1.9.2, refs/remotes/origin/maint) If that's the confusion, feel free to suggest better wording for the documentation. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html