| GIT-NAME-REV(1) | Git Manual | GIT-NAME-REV(1) |
NAME¶
git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs
SYNOPSIS¶
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 omitted from the name, matching the output of git-describe more
closely.
--no-undefined
Die with error code != 0 when a reference is undefined,
instead of printing undefined.
--always
Show uniquely abbreviated commit object as
fallback.
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:
% git name-rev 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a tags/v0.99~940
Now you are wiser, because you know that it happened 940 revisions before v0.99.
Another nice thing you can do is:
% git log | git name-rev --stdin
GIT¶
Part of the git(1) suite
| 05/23/2023 | Git 1.8.3.1 |