Re: Getting the commit that corresponds to a specific annotated tag

Adam Mercer [off-list ref] writes:

For some porcelain I'm writing I need to determine the commit that
corresponds to a given annotated tag, so far I have the following:

$ git cat-file tag <tag_name> | grep object | awk '{print $2}'

Is there already some pluming that performs this task?

I think you want

	git rev-parse $tag^{commit}

It's kind of scary, though.

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

I think you want

       git rev-parse $tag^{commit}

It's kind of scary, though.

Thanks, that does the trick. Why do you say it's scary?

Cheers

Adam