git/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
Shawn O. Pearce 23615708e2 Teach git-describe how to run name-rev
Often users want to know not which tagged version a commit came
after, but which tagged version a commit is contained within.
This latter task is the job of git-name-rev, but most users are
looking to git-describe to do the job.

Junio suggested we make `git describe --contains` run the correct
tool, `git name-rev`, and that's exactly what we do here.  The output
of name-rev was adjusted slightly through the new --name-only option,
allowing describe to execv into name-rev and maintain its current
output format.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-05-21 23:56:28 -07:00

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git-name-rev(1)
===============
NAME
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git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git-name-rev' [--tags] [--refs=<pattern>]
( --all | --stdin | <committish>... )
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Finds symbolic names suitable for human digestion for revisions given in any
format parsable by git-rev-parse.
OPTIONS
-------
--tags::
Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits
--refs=<pattern>::
Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern.
--all::
List all commits reachable from all refs
--stdin::
Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of nameable
commits, and pass to stdout
--name-only::
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 ommitted from the name, matching the output
of gitlink::git-describe[1] more closely. This option
cannot be combined with --stdin.
EXAMPLE
-------
Given a commit, find out where it is relative to the local refs. Say somebody
wrote you about that fantastic commit 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a.
Of course, you look into the commit, but that only tells you what happened, but
not the context.
Enter git-name-rev:
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% git name-rev 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a
33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99^0~940
------------
Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions before v0.99.
Another nice thing you can do is:
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% git log | git name-rev --stdin
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Author
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Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Documentation
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Documentation by Johannes Schindelin.
GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite