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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] name-rev: allow converting the exact object name at
 the tip of a ref
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 17:50:16 +0530
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "git name-rev" is supposed to convert 40-hex object names into
> strings that name the same objects based on refs, that can be fed to
> "git rev-parse" to get the same object names back, so
>
>     $ git rev-parse v1.8.3 v1.8.3^0 | git name-rev --stdin
>     8af06057d0c31a24e8737ae846ac2e116e8bafb9
>     edca4152560522a431a51fc0a06147fc680b5b18 (tags/v1.8.3^0)

Wait, what?

  $ git name-rev 8af060
  8af060 tags/v1.8.3^0

Isn't this a failure specific to --stdin?

> Teach it to show this instead:
>
>     $ git rev-parse v1.8.3 v1.8.3^0 | git name-rev --stdin
>     8af06057d0c31a24e8737ae846ac2e116e8bafb9 (tags/v1.8.3)
>     edca4152560522a431a51fc0a06147fc680b5b18 (tags/v1.8.3^0)

Wait, what is name-rev?

  Finds symbolic names suitable for human digestion for revisions
  given in any format parsable by git rev-parse.

It is meant to name _revisions_ (aka. commits): in that context, what
sense does it make to distinguish between tags/v1.8.3 and
tags/v1.8.3^0?