# Is current HEAD pointing at a given revision ? 5 messages from 2011-06-14 to 2011-06-14. Participants: Francis Moreau, Jakub Narebski. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/27619 ## Francis Moreau, 2011-06-14 06:59 Subject: Is current HEAD pointing at a given revision ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/BANLkTikFTHc4Qiu1YLxXgPhweNnVqMO11Q%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hello, I have a given revision (tag, sha1 ...) and I'd like to know if that revisions corresponds to what the current HEAD is pointing at. Could anybody give me some advices for achieving this ? Thanks -- Francis ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2011-06-14 09:00 Subject: Re: Is current HEAD pointing at a given revision ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m3mxhkvlcw.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: ``` Francis Moreau writes: > I have a given revision (tag, sha1 ...) and I'd like to know if that > revisions corresponds to what the current HEAD is pointing at. > > Could anybody give me some advices for achieving this ? If you want to know if given revision (or ref) points at the same thing as HEAD, you can use [ "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$(git rev-parse $ref^{commit})" ] or something like that. The '^{commit}' is here in case $ref points only indirectly to commit, via a tag object. If you want to kow if current HEAD is tagged, you can use instead git describe --exact-match HEAD -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git ``` ## Francis Moreau, 2011-06-14 15:56 Subject: Re: Is current HEAD pointing at a given revision ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/BANLkTimMkOS_Q9gb_ta2P3NSMGyNJtKgJA%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Francis Moreau writes: > >> I have a given revision (tag, sha1 ...) and I'd like to know if that >> revisions corresponds to what the current HEAD is pointing at. >> >> Could anybody give me some advices for achieving this ? > > If you want to know if given revision (or ref) points at the same > thing as HEAD, you can use > >  [ "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$(git rev-parse $ref^{commit})" ] > > or something like that.  The '^{commit}' is here in case $ref points > only indirectly to commit, via a tag object. > I see thanks. I'm not sure what the ^{commit} is for because in the case of tag object, git-rev-parse seems to work fine without the suffix: git rev-parse v2.6.39 8b0753a3df28c21b0570fa21362c5f1b3b4f59bf This is in a kernel git repository Thanks -- Francis ``` ## Jakub Narebski, 2011-06-14 16:17 Subject: Re: Is current HEAD pointing at a given revision ? Message-ID: <201106141817.23585.jnareb@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/201106141817.23585.jnareb%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Francis Moreau wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > Francis Moreau writes: > > > > > I have a given revision (tag, sha1 ...) and I'd like to know if that > > > revisions corresponds to what the current HEAD is pointing at. > > > > > > Could anybody give me some advices for achieving this ? > > > > If you want to know if given revision (or ref) points at the same > > thing as HEAD, you can use > > > >  [ "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$(git rev-parse $ref^{commit})" ] > > > > or something like that.  The '^{commit}' is here in case $ref points > > only indirectly to commit, via a tag object. > > > > I see thanks. > > I'm not sure what the ^{commit} is for because in the case of tag > object, git-rev-parse seems to work fine without the suffix: > > git rev-parse v2.6.39 > 8b0753a3df28c21b0570fa21362c5f1b3b4f59bf > > This is in a kernel git repository But that is the SHA-1 id of a _tag object_, not of commit (revision) it points to. '^{}' means peel to not tag, '^{commit}' means peel to commit. In git repository: $ git rev-parse v1.7.5 4d2f8aeba22578022e2d2a56dac37fcdf78d82d4 $ git rev-parse v1.7.5^{} ec014eac0e9e6f30cbbca616090fa2ecf74797e7 $ git rev-parse v1.7.5^{commit} ec014eac0e9e6f30cbbca616090fa2ecf74797e7 $ git cat-file -t 4d2f8aeba22578022e2d2a56dac37fcdf78d82d4 tag $ git cat-file -t ec014eac0e9e6f30cbbca616090fa2ecf74797e7 commit $ git cat-file -t HEAD commit -- Jakub Narebski Poland ``` ## Francis Moreau, 2011-06-14 19:17 Subject: Re: Is current HEAD pointing at a given revision ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/BANLkTikMQxEFEB0wMV0T6DfCFWiiU4ukmg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <201106141817.23585.jnareb@gmail.com> ``` On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Francis Moreau wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> > Francis Moreau writes: >> > >> > > I have a given revision (tag, sha1 ...) and I'd like to know if that >> > > revisions corresponds to what the current HEAD is pointing at. >> > > >> > > Could anybody give me some advices for achieving this ? >> > >> > If you want to know if given revision (or ref) points at the same >> > thing as HEAD, you can use >> > >> >  [ "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$(git rev-parse $ref^{commit})" ] >> > >> > or something like that.  The '^{commit}' is here in case $ref points >> > only indirectly to commit, via a tag object. >> > >> >> I see thanks. >> >> I'm not sure what the ^{commit} is for because in the case of tag >> object, git-rev-parse seems to work fine without the suffix: >> >> git rev-parse v2.6.39 >> 8b0753a3df28c21b0570fa21362c5f1b3b4f59bf >> >> This is in a kernel git repository > > But that is the SHA-1 id of a _tag object_, not of commit (revision) > it points to. '^{}' means peel to not tag, '^{commit}' means peel to > commit. > Oh I see now, thanks a lot ! -- Francis ```