git describe currently only supports glob matching with the --matches flag. It would be useful to support regular expressions. PCRE is already an optional dependency from git grep, I wonder if posix or extended regexes would be preferable? Some old discussion of this as a candidate feature is here, though nobody put together a patch as far as I can see: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/173873 Mostyn Bramley-Moore (2): describe: mention glob in the --matches help text describe: add --pcre-match option Documentation/git-describe.txt | 5 +++ builtin/describe.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- t/README | 3 +- t/t6120-describe.sh | 29 ++++++++++++++--- 4 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 2.5.0 -- 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