git describe currently only supports glob matching with the --matches flag. It would be useful to support regular expressions. For consistency, this uses the same regex flags as those used by git-grep. 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. Mostyn Bramley-Moore (2): describe: add option to use perl-compatible regexes with --match describe: add basic and extended posix regex matching for completeness Documentation/git-describe.txt | 21 ++++++- builtin/describe.c | 131 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- t/README | 3 +- t/t6120-describe.sh | 38 ++++++++++-- 4 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 9 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