On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- 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