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+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
+