Hi, I actually sent these patches to the list last month, but nobody seemed to be interested. This is an unedited resend. I looked into adding tests, but decided that it was a lost cause: the output is too loosely defined for any scripts to rely on it strongly. [1/3] already shows a race between branches and tags. For another example, consider two tags are pointing to same commit (D and R in t6120-describe.sh). Run the following on the two tags and see what happens for yourself: $ git describe --contains $ git describe --all $ git describe --tags Now think about various combinations of these options. I'm not saying that it's a Bad Thing (TM), but that nobody has bothered tightening the output. My main motivation for doing this series is my prompt: I don't want to see artagnon|(tags/v1.8.3^0)~/src/git$ when artagnon|(v1.8.3)~/src/git$ is so much more pleasant and consistent. Obviously, hacking around this problem in the prompt script is the Wrong thing to do. Thanks. Ramkumar Ramachandra (3): name-rev: fix assumption about --name-only usage name-rev: strip trailing ^0 in when --name-only name-rev doc: rewrite --stdin paragraph Documentation/git-name-rev.txt | 12 +++++++----- builtin/name-rev.c | 12 +++++++++++- t/t4202-log.sh | 8 ++++---- t/t6007-rev-list-cherry-pick-file.sh | 32 ++++++++++++++++---------------- 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.2.737.gcbc076a.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html