git-name-rev
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Name
git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs
Synopsis
git name-rev [--tags] [--refs=<pattern>]
( --all | --stdin | <committish>... )
Description
Git Manual GIT-NAME-REV(1)
NAME
git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs
SYNOPSIS
git 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 more closely.
--no-undefined
Die with error code != 0 when a reference is undefined,
instead of printing undefined.
--always
Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback.
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/v0.99~940
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Git Manual GIT-NAME-REV(1)
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
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/git |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from http://git-
core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
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