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April 22, 2010 08:34
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Get the SHA of some git branch.
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| # Get the SHA of some branch. There must be a better way to do this. | |
| git log -1 --pretty=oneline origin/somebranch | sed -E "s/^([^[:space:]]+).*/\1/" |
I'm surprised this didn't work for you. I've been using it in some workflow-management scripts for a few months on both Linux and OS X without any problems, and just tried it again on my mac and it seems to work fine.
However...I like your way better - much easier to read :)
This just in: Someone posted a comment on my blog about this with an even better way:
git log -1 --pretty=format:%H
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Didn't work.
To achieve the same I did:
git log -1 --pretty=oneline master | cut -d ' ' -f 1