something like git name-rev to get branch of commit

[m4rch3n1ng]

Summary 💡

$ git name-rev --no-undefined --always 4e2fd00 2> /dev/null
4e2fd00 main~2

i think gitoxide is missing something like that

Motivation 🔦

i am (re-)writing my shell integration in rust and i want to show the branch the commit is on

(technically i am currently using the command git name-rev --no-undefined --always --exclude="tags/*" --exclude="stash" --exclude="remotes/*" --exclude=" bisect/*" 4e2fd00 2> /dev/null to get that information)

i couldn't find a way to replicate that using gitoxide and i can't fully rewrite my shell integration without it

[Byron]

Thanks for sharing your particular use-case.

It is true that right now, only the equivalent of git describe is supported, and name-rev would be another algorithm to implement one day for parity.

It looks like the algorithm is quite compact and more simple than the one of git describe, which should help with an implementation once it's tackled.

Please note that it's not on my short list of things to do right onw