Getting the commit that corresponds to a specific annotated tag

From: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 1, 2012, 21:47 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+mfgz2=ZFBetSGv1Bkq6orBbpVTS1k0gLVm0nGoR1sUDkDwqQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi

For some porcelain I'm writing I need to determine the commit that corresponds to a given annotated tag, so far I have the following:

$ git cat-file tag <tag_name> | grep object | awk '{print $2}'

Is there already some pluming that performs this task?

Cheers

Adam

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