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
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` more closely. This option
- cannot be combined with --stdin.
+ of `git-describe` more closely.
--no-undefined::
Die with error code != 0 when a reference is undefined,
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.