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diff --git a/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt b/Documentation/git-name-rev.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e37b0b8f97 --- /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 + |