From: Martin Langhoff Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:16:30 GMT Subject: Re: A new way to get a sha1? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vipd5s161.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > git show -s ':/^t1100-.*: Fix an interm' That doesn't work for me (git 1.7.10.4 as per Fedora 18 rpms) in git.git. But the idea is sound -- git can give you the sha1 trivially. You don't need additional glue. But any ref definition can be turned into a sha1 with this snippet: git show --pretty=format:%H HEAD If you want to get the last 10 sha1s, use the same "pretty" with git log git log --pretty=format:%H HEAD | head This is all predicated on passing the info to something else. For git commands, you can always use the rich ref notation git supports. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff