6 git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs
12 'git-name-rev' [--tags] [--refs=<pattern>]
13 ( --all | --stdin | <committish>... )
17 Finds symbolic names suitable for human digestion for revisions given in any
18 format parsable by git-rev-parse.
25 Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits
28 Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern.
31 List all commits reachable from all refs
34 Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of nameable
35 commits, and pass to stdout
40 Given a commit, find out where it is relative to the local refs. Say somebody
41 wrote you about that fantastic commit 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a.
42 Of course, you look into the commit, but that only tells you what happened, but
48 % git name-rev 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a
49 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99^0~940
52 Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions before v0.99.
54 Another nice thing you can do is:
57 % git log | git name-rev --stdin
63 Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
67 Documentation by Johannes Schindelin.
71 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite