libgit2: Resolving HEAD to a SHA

From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Mar 3, 2011, 16:08 UTC
Message-ID: <4D6FBD00.6010208@workspacewhiz.com>

I spent a couple hours yesterday trying different methods of resolving HEAD to its appropriate SHA-1. At best, I could get a resolution of HEAD to 'master'.

How do I achieve the functionality of 'git rev-parse' with the libgit2 API?

Thanks.

Josh

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