From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting the commit that corresponds to a specific annotated tag
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:00:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd35i1ymz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+mfgz2=ZFBetSGv1Bkq6orBbpVTS1k0gLVm0nGoR1sUDkDwqQ@mail.gmail.com> (Adam Mercer's message of "Fri, 1 Jun 2012 16:47:43 -0500")
Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com> writes:
> For some porcelain I'm writing I need to determine the commit that
> corresponds to a given annotated tag, so far I have the following:
>
> $ git cat-file tag <tag_name> | grep object | awk '{print $2}'
>
> Is there already some pluming that performs this task?
I think you want
git rev-parse $tag^{commit}
It's kind of scary, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-01 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-01 21:47 Getting the commit that corresponds to a specific annotated tag Adam Mercer
2012-06-01 22:00 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-06-01 22:11 ` Adam Mercer
2012-06-01 22:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-06-01 22:27 ` Adam Mercer
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