git/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt
Johannes Schindelin bd321bcc51 Add git-name-rev
git-name-rev tries to find nice symbolic names for commits. It does so by
walking the commits from the refs. When the symbolic name is ambiguous, the
following heuristic is applied: Try to avoid too many ~'s, and if two ambiguous
names have the same count of ~'s, take the one whose last number is smaller.

With "--tags", the names are derived only from tags.

With "--stdin", the stdin is parsed, and after every sha1 for which a name
could be found, the name is appended. (Try "git log | git name-rev --stdin".)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-10-26 16:31:58 -07:00

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git-name-rev(1)
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NAME
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git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs.
SYNOPSIS
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'git-name-rev' [--tags] ( --all | --stdin | <commitish>... )
DESCRIPTION
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Finds symbolic names suitable for human digestion for revisions given in any
format parsable by git-rev-parse.
OPTIONS
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--tags::
Do not use branch names, but only tags to name the commits
--all::
List all commits reachable from all refs
--stdin::
Read from stdin, append "(<rev_name>)" to all sha1's of name'able
commits, and pass to stdout
EXAMPLE
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Given a commit, find out where it is relative to the local refs. Say somebody
wrote you about that phantastic 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
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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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