May 3, 2017 · A revision always points to a sha1 (it doesn't actually point, a revision is identified by its sha1 ID but bear with me) but objects in git's DB can be: revisions, trees, blobs, etc and they are all identified by sha1 IDs. So a revision implies using a sha1 ID (to identify it... but there are other sha1 IDs used in a revision like for parents ...

Jul 22, 2009 · Does anyone know how to get the latest SHA of a given branch from outside a git repository? If you are inside a git repository, you can do: git log origin/branch_X | head -1 However, I am not inside a git repository, and I would like to avoid having to clone a repository just to get the latest SHA of a tag/branch. Is there a clever way of doing ...

Jun 4, 2009 · I like git describe --long --dirty --abbrev=10 --tags it will give me something like 7.2.0.Final-447-g65bf4ef2d4 which is 447 commits after the 7.2.0.Final tag and the first 10 digest of the global SHA-1 at the current HEAD are "65bf4ef2d4".

Aug 10, 2023 · Whether to use SHA-1 or SHA-256 is a per-repository setting in recent versions of Git. The plan is eventually to make it possible to store data in a repository in SHA-256 and access the objects with either the SHA-1 name or the SHA-256 name.

git ls-files -s myfile.java Note that you do not want git hash-object as this gives you the sha1 id of the file in the working tree as it currently is, not of the file that you've added to the index. These will be different once you make changes to the working tree copy after the git add.

Feb 16, 2016 · In case you kept score: Creating a Git commit hash involves using SHA-1 at least three times. Below is the Rust function for creating the Git commit hash. It uses the tree_object_hash produced in the previous step and a struct CommitMetaData which contains the rest of the data you see when calling git cat-file commit HEAD .

Dec 13, 2009 · git revert <SHA-1> should and does work. If you want to rewind back to a specified commit, and you can do this because this part of history was not yet published, you need to use git-reset, not git-revert: git reset --hard <SHA-1> (Note that --hard would make you lose any non-committed changes in the working directory). Additional Notes

Jan 19, 2020 · You can use metadata-action to extract tags (and other metadata) from github events. From the metadata you can also get a short sha.

Jun 24, 2014 · git log --grep=word should help find the relevant commit. (as opposed to searching for commit contents, where git log -S (pickaxe option) or git grep are more appropriate) Add various format options like. git log --grep=word --pretty=oneline git log --grep=word --pretty=format:"%h" (the last one displaying only the SHA1), and you are good to go.

git show --no-patch --oneline <SHA1> git show --no-patch <SHA1> This is an answer to View a specific Git commit which has no reply box as it has been marked as a duplicate of this question. Some of the people looking for a reply to the above question are likely to follow the link and look for an answer here.