In the Jenkins API is there a way to find the git commit of the last build?

Question

I would like to write a script to automate the feature branch creation for hot-fixes. In order to do that I need to figure out how to see what was the last commit in the cur

Answer 1

You did not specify which API would you prefer to use. But assuming Jenkins XML API it would be something like:

http://myjenkins/job/myJobName/lastBuild/api/xml?xpath=//lastBuiltRevision/SHA1