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| author | Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> | 2005-10-26 15:10:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2005-10-26 16:31:58 -0700 |
| commit | bd321bcc51e95f644ac5335abe673afcbcaade62 (patch) | |
| tree | 063a1f66314a590f11dc419b31674ad7bc04714d /Documentation | |
| parent | f3123c4ab3d3698262e59561ac084de45b10365a (diff) | |
| download | git-bd321bcc51e95f644ac5335abe673afcbcaade62.tar.gz git-bd321bcc51e95f644ac5335abe673afcbcaade62.tar.xz | |
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>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-name-rev.txt | 66 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e37b0b8f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +git-name-rev(1) +=============== + +NAME +---- +git-name-rev - Find symbolic names for given revs. + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git-name-rev' [--tags] ( --all | --stdin | <commitish>... ) + +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 + +--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 +------- + +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: + +------------ +% git name-rev 33db5f4d9027a10e477ccf054b2c1ab94f74c85a +------------ + +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 +------------ + + +Author +------ +Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by Johannes Schindelin. + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite + |