1git-name-rev(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-name-rev' [--tags] ( --all | --stdin | <commitish>... ) 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Finds symbolic names suitable for human digestion for revisions given in any 16format parsable by git-rev-parse. 17 18 19OPTIONS 20------- 21 22--tags:: 23 Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits 24 25--all:: 26 List all commits reachable from all refs 27 28--stdin:: 29 Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of name'able 30 commits, and pass to stdout 31 32EXAMPLE 33------- 34 35Given a commit, find out where it is relative to the local refs. Say somebody 36wrote you about that phantastic commit 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a. 37Of course, you look into the commit, but that only tells you what happened, but 38not the context. 39 40Enter git-name-rev: 41 42------------ 43% git name-rev 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a 44------------ 45 46Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions before v0.99. 47 48Another nice thing you can do is: 49 50------------ 51% git log | git name-rev --stdin 52------------ 53 54 55Author 56------ 57Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 58 59Documentation 60-------------- 61Documentation by Johannes Schindelin. 62 63GIT 64--- 65Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 66