From: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:16:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Show current SHA1
Message-ID: <20090711101652.GA30698@hashpling.org>
In-Reply-To: <874otjlf22.fsf@iki.fi>

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:55:17PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> On 2009-07-11 10:39 (+0100), Allan Kelly wrote:
> 
> > The question then is: what is the command to report the current SHA1?
> > Note I never branch in the HTML repo, it's entirely linear.
> 
> If the "current SHA1" means "the SHA1 of the most recent commit in the
> current branch" then usually
> 
>     git show
> 
> is the simplest way. There are many ways to print _only_ the SHA1.
> Examples:
> 
>     git log -1 --pretty=format:%H
>     git rev-list -1 HEAD

For listing a single commit, I usually think of show and rev-parse
before using commands that list multiple commits. (Of course, having
to use --quiet doesn't make show any shorter than log -1.)

    git rev-parse HEAD
    git show --quiet --pretty=format:%H

-- 
Charles Bailey
http://ccgi.hashpling.plus.com/blog/