On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:50:52AM -0700, Jakub Narebski wrote: > About printing either forward (git-describe, e.g. v1.6.0.2-590-g67f6062) > or backward (git-name-rev, e.g. tags/v1.6.0-rc2~8): you can use > git-name-rev in filter mode (git log ... | git name-rev --stdin), or > "git log --decorate", or '%d' in --pretty format specifier (this is very > new thing). The "--decorate" and "%d" code just decorates branch _tips_. My impression is that he wanted to see the branch mentioned even if the commit was not at the tip. It would be possible to extend this to print name-rev output, but it would be computationally and memory-intensive, I suspect. -Peff -- 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