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 | <committish>... ) 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 nameable 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 fantastic 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 4433db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99^0~940 45------------ 46 47Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions before v0.99. 48 49Another nice thing you can do is: 50 51------------ 52% git log | git name-rev --stdin 53------------ 54 55 56Author 57------ 58Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> 59 60Documentation 61-------------- 62Documentation by Johannes Schindelin. 63 64GIT 65--- 66Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 67