Tim Walberg [off-list ref] writes:
That does indeed seem to work on first try. Not sure it was
a particularly critical issue - just unexpected.
I didn't think it is particularly critical, either, and that is why I said
it has been like this for eons at least since v1.6.0.
And it turns out that this was pretty much from day one of name-rev at
bd321bc (Add git-name-rev, 2005-10-26).