On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:55:17PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-07-11 10:39 (+0100), Allan Kelly wrote: > > > The question then is: what is the command to report the current SHA1? > > Note I never branch in the HTML repo, it's entirely linear. > > If the "current SHA1" means "the SHA1 of the most recent commit in the > current branch" then usually > > git show > > is the simplest way. There are many ways to print _only_ the SHA1. > Examples: > > git log -1 --pretty=format:%H > git rev-list -1 HEAD For listing a single commit, I usually think of show and rev-parse before using commands that list multiple commits. (Of course, having to use --quiet doesn't make show any shorter than log -1.) git rev-parse HEAD git show --quiet --pretty=format:%H -- Charles Bailey http://ccgi.hashpling.plus.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html