Re: How to query the version of a file?

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Edmond Halley [off-list ref] wrote:

I have a standalone repository.
File a.cpp has 3 versions.
For example, I checked out version2(HEAD^).

quoted

git checkout HEAD^ a.cpp

After a few days, I forget which version I have checked out.
Is there a git command that can query which version is checked out?

There may be an easier way to do this, but the way I do it is (sort
of) documented in
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#Finding-comments-With-given-Content
(should be "commits" instead of "comments", but oh well!) and can be
tweaked to suit yourself:

    git log --raw --abbrev=40 --pretty=oneline |
    grep -B 24 `git hash-object a.cpp`

There may be other, and possibly more efficient, ways to do this, but
it generally works for me.