DESCRIPTION
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Finds symbolic names suitable for human digestion for revisions given in any
-format parsable by 'git-rev-parse'.
+format parsable by 'git rev-parse'.
OPTIONS
Of course, you look into the commit, but that only tells you what happened, but
not the context.
-Enter 'git-name-rev':
+Enter 'git name-rev':
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% git name-rev 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a
-33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99^0~940
+33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99~940
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Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions before v0.99.
% git log | git name-rev --stdin
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-Author
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-Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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-Documentation
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-Documentation by Johannes Schindelin.
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GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite