Re: A new way to get a sha1?

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

        git show -s ':/^t1100-.*: Fix an interm'

That doesn't work for me (git 1.7.10.4 as per Fedora 18 rpms) in
git.git. But the idea is sound -- git can give you the sha1 trivially.
You don't need additional glue.

But any ref definition can be turned into a sha1 with this snippet:

    git show --pretty=format:%H HEAD

If you want to get the last 10 sha1s, use the same "pretty" with git log

   git log --pretty=format:%H HEAD | head

This is all predicated on passing the info to something else. For git
commands, you can always use the rich ref notation git supports.

cheers,


m
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