Git command to display HEAD commit id?

Question

What command can I use to print out the commit id of HEAD?

This is what I\'m doing by hand:

$ cat .git/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/v3.3
$ cat .git/refs/head         


        

Answer 1

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

Answer 2

You can use

git log -g branchname

to see git reflog information formatted like the git log output

Answer 3

According to https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log, for more pretty output in console you can use --decorate argument of git-log command:

git log --pretty=oneline --decorate

will print:

2a5ccd714972552064746e0fb9a7aed747e483c7 (HEAD -> master) New commit
fe00287269b07e2e44f25095748b86c5fc50a3ef (tag: v1.1-01) Commit 3
08ed8cceb27f4f5e5a168831d20a9d2fa5c91d8b (tag: v1.1, tag: v1.0-0.1) commit 1
116340f24354497af488fd63f4f5ad6286e176fc (tag: v1.0) second
52c1cdcb1988d638ec9e05a291e137912b56b3af test

Answer 4

Old thread, still for future reference...:) even following works

git show-ref --head

by default HEAD is filtered out. Be careful about following though ; plural "heads" with a 's' at the end. The following command shows branches under "refs/heads"

 git show-ref --heads

Answer 5

You can specify git log options to show only the last commit, -1, and a format that includes only the commit ID, like this:

git log -1 --format=%H

If you prefer the shortened commit ID:

git log -1 --format=%h

Answer 6

You can use this command

$ git rev-list HEAD

You can also use the head Unix command to show the latest n HEAD commits like

$ git rev-list HEAD | head - 2