Seems like there ought to be an easier way...but not that I could find in less time than it took to write this command.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Find the SHA1 of the latest commit in a git branch
Here's a way to get the SHA1 of the last commit in a given branch in a way that can be used in a script easily. For humans `git log branchname` is probably fine - just read the first line. For a shell script that wants to get that value into a variable, here's a quick way to do that:
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Hi, I didn't get that command to work on my mac, but there's an easier way:
git log -1 --pretty=format:%H
/Markus
Markus - odd that didn't work for you. I heard the same from someone else commenting on the gist at https://gist.github.com/374977
I've been using it in a script that runs on Linux and OS X for months and just tried it again and it works fine...
However, I think your way wins. That looks like the way it was meant to be done.
rev-parse offers yet another, even simpler way:
git rev-parse $branch
This is the simplest use of rev-parse.
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