1git-name-rev(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git name-rev' [--tags] [--refs=<pattern>] 13 ( --all | --stdin | <committish>... ) 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17Finds symbolic names suitable for human digestion for revisions given in any 18format parsable by 'git rev-parse'. 19 20 21OPTIONS 22------- 23 24--tags:: 25 Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits 26 27--refs=<pattern>:: 28 Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern. The pattern 29 can be one of branch name, tag name or fully qualified ref name. 30 31--all:: 32 List all commits reachable from all refs 33 34--stdin:: 35 Transform stdin by substituting all the 40-character SHA-1 36 hexes (say $hex) with "$hex ($rev_name)". When used with 37 --name-only, substitute with "$rev_name", omitting $hex 38 altogether. Intended for the scripter's use. 39 40--name-only:: 41 Instead of printing both the SHA-1 and the name, print only 42 the name. If given with --tags the usual tag prefix of 43 "tags/" is also omitted from the name, matching the output 44 of `git-describe` more closely. 45 46--no-undefined:: 47 Die with error code != 0 when a reference is undefined, 48 instead of printing `undefined`. 49 50--always:: 51 Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback. 52 53EXAMPLE 54------- 55 56Given a commit, find out where it is relative to the local refs. Say somebody 57wrote you about that fantastic commit 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a. 58Of course, you look into the commit, but that only tells you what happened, but 59not the context. 60 61Enter 'git name-rev': 62 63------------ 64% git name-rev 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a 6533db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99~940 66------------ 67 68Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions before v0.99. 69 70Another nice thing you can do is: 71 72------------ 73% git log | git name-rev --stdin 74------------ 75 76GIT 77--- 78Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite