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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sh-setup: add new peel_committish() helper
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Philip Oakley wrote:
> Is there a proper name for this style of revision specification? I've been
> letting this 'style' wash over me in the hope that I'd understand
> eventually, but it hasn't.

See gitrevisions(7).  None of them have any names.

> Loking at git-rev-parse I now see that it might be the 'Commit Message
> Regex' rev specifier.

Did you just invent that term?  I couldn't find any mentions of it.