Referencing the child of a commit in Git

Question

If you want to move the HEAD to the parent of the current HEAD, that\'s easy:

git reset --hard HEAD^

But is there

Answer 1

You can use the gist of the creator for Hudson (now Jenkins) Kohsuke Kawaguchi (November 2013):
kohsuke / git-children-of:

Given a commit, find immediate children of that commit.

#!/bin/bash -e
# given a commit, find immediate children of that commit.
for arg in "$@"; do
  for commit in $(git rev-parse $arg^0); do
    for child in $(git log --format='%H %P' --all | grep -F " $commit" | cut -f1 -d' '); do
      git describe $child
    done
  done
done

Put that script in a folder referenced by your $PATH, and simply type:

git children-of