git-name-rev

GIT-NAME-REV(1)			  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(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 1.5.5.6			  01/12/2009		       GIT-NAME-REV(1)