Git command to display HEAD commit id?

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What command can I use to print out the commit id of HEAD?

This is what I'm doing by hand:

$ cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/v3.3
$ cat .git/refs/heads/v3.3
6050732e725c68b83c35c873ff8808dff1c406e1

But I need a script that can reliably pipe the output of some command to a text file such that the text file contains exactly the commit id of HEAD (nothing more or less, and not just a ref). Can anyone help?

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8 Answers

Use the command:

git rev-parse HEAD

For the short version:

git rev-parse --short HEAD
user_224830

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

user_29584280

You can use this command

$ git rev-list HEAD

You can also use the head Unix command to show the latest n HEAD commits like

$ git rev-list HEAD | head -n 2

user_107777930

You can use

git log -g branchname

to see git reflog information formatted like the git log output along with commit id.

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