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git-name-rev(1)
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===============
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NAME
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----
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git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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[verse]
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'git name-rev' [--tags] [--refs=<pattern>]
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( --all | --stdin | <committish>... )
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Finds symbolic names suitable for human digestion for revisions given in any
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format parsable by 'git rev-parse'.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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--tags::
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Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits
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--refs=<pattern>::
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Only use refs whose names match a given shell pattern.
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--all::
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List all commits reachable from all refs
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--stdin::
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Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of nameable
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commits, and pass to stdout
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--name-only::
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Instead of printing both the SHA-1 and the name, print only
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the name. If given with --tags the usual tag prefix of
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"tags/" is also omitted from the name, matching the output
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of `git-describe` more closely.
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--no-undefined::
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Die with error code != 0 when a reference is undefined,
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instead of printing `undefined`.
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--always::
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Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as fallback.
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EXAMPLE
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-------
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Given a commit, find out where it is relative to the local refs. Say somebody
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wrote you about that fantastic commit 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a.
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Of course, you look into the commit, but that only tells you what happened, but
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not the context.
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Enter 'git name-rev':
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% git name-rev 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a
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33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99~940
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------------
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Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions before v0.99.
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Another nice thing you can do is:
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% git log | git name-rev --stdin
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------------
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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