Show sha1 only with git log

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I want to write a Bash script that loops over the sha1s of commits output by an invocation of git log. However, git log gives me much more output than I want:

commit 0375602ba2017ba8750a58e934b41153faee6fcb
Author: Mark Amery <markamery@notmyrealemail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 1 21:35:07 2014 +0000

    Yet another commit message

    This one even has newlines.

commit 4390ee9f4428c84bdbeb2fed0a461099a6c81b39
Author: Mark Amery <markamery@notmyrealemail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 1 21:30:19 2014 +0000

    Second commit message.

commit bff53bfbc56485c4c1007b0884bb1c0d61a1cf71
Author: Mark Amery <markamery@notmyrealemail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 1 21:28:27 2014 +0000

    First commit message.

How can I get git log to just output sha1s so that I can loop over them conveniently?

git bash
3 Answers

If you want to see only the latest one

git rev-list HEAD | head -1
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