GIT-NAME-REV(1) Git Manual GIT-NAME-REV(1)NAMEgit-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs
SYNOPSISgit-name-rev [--tags] [--refs=<pattern>]
( --all | --stdin | <committish>... )
DESCRIPTION
Finds symbolic names suitable for human digestion for revisions given
in any format parsable by git-rev-parse.
OPTIONS--tags Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits
--refs=<pattern>
Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern.
--all List all commits reachable from all refs
--stdin
Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of nameable
commits, and pass to stdout
--name-only
Instead of printing both the SHA-1 and the name, print only the
name. If given with --tags the usual tag prefix of "tags/" is
also omitted from the name, matching the output of
git-describe(1) more closely. This option cannot be combined
with --stdin.
EXAMPLE
Given a commit, find out where it is relative to the local refs. Say
somebody wrote you about that fantastic commit
33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a. Of course, you look into the
commit, but that only tells you what happened, but not the context.
Enter git-name-rev:
% git name-rev 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a
33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99^0~940
Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions
before v0.99.
Another nice thing you can do is:
% git log | git name-rev --stdin
AUTHOR
Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Johannes Schindelin.
GIT
Part of the git(7) suite
Git 1.5.5.2 10/21/2008 GIT-NAME-REV(1)
