1GIT-NAME-REV(1)                   Git Manual                   GIT-NAME-REV(1)
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NAME

6       git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs
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SYNOPSIS

9       git name-rev [--tags] [--refs=<pattern>]
10                      ( --all | --stdin | <committish>... )
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DESCRIPTION

14       Finds symbolic names suitable for human digestion for revisions given
15       in any format parsable by git rev-parse.
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OPTIONS

18       --tags
19           Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits
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22           Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern.
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27       --stdin
28           Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1’s of nameable
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32           Instead of printing both the SHA-1 and the name, print only the
33           name. If given with --tags the usual tag prefix of "tags/" is also
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37       --no-undefined
38           Die with error code != 0 when a reference is undefined, instead of
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EXAMPLE

45       Given a commit, find out where it is relative to the local refs. Say
46       somebody wrote you about that fantastic commit
47       33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a. Of course, you look into the
48       commit, but that only tells you what happened, but not the context.
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50       Enter git name-rev:
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52           % git name-rev 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a
53           33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99~940
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56       Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions
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59       Another nice thing you can do is:
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AUTHOR

65       Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de[1]>
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DOCUMENTATION

68       Documentation by Johannes Schindelin.
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GIT

71       Part of the git(1) suite
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NOTES

74        1. Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
75           mailto:Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de
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