Carl Worth wrote:

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> Also, since the git names are so predictable, git almost never emits
> them. It accepts them as names just fine, but it doesn't generate
> them, (log, and commit never show the branch-specific names). I think
> the only git command that even can emit such a name was a recently
> added git-name-rev which exists solely for the purpose of mapping a
> commit identifier to a local, branch-specific name which might have
> more intuitive meaning for the user.

git-show-branch also shows git-name-rev like names.

BTW. git-show-branch has somewhat strange, and different from other git 
commands UI. You can think of it as text version of gitk/qgit history 
viewer (although you can use tig for CLI (ncurses) graph).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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