In Git, what is the difference between long and short hashes?

Question

Here is the long Git hash:

commit c26cf8af130955c5c67cfea96f9532680b963628

Merge: 8654907 37c2a4f

Author: nicolas

Date: Wed Apr 26 13:28:2

Answer 1

A short hash is just the first 7 characters of your full hash.

Right below the circled commit in your screenshot, you can see a commit labeled c26cf8a. This should be the commit c26cf8af130955c5c67cfea96f9532680b963628 you were looking for.