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From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Is current HEAD pointing at a given revision ?
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:56:43 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have a given revision (tag, sha1 ...) and I'd like to know if that
>> revisions corresponds to what the current HEAD is pointing at.
>>
>> Could anybody give me some advices for achieving this ?
>
> If you want to know if given revision (or ref) points at the same
> thing as HEAD, you can use
>
> =A0[ "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" =3D "$(git rev-parse $ref^{commit})" ]
>
> or something like that. =A0The '^{commit}' is here in case $ref point=
s
> only indirectly to commit, via a tag object.
>

I see thanks.

I'm not sure what the ^{commit} is for because in the case of tag
object, git-rev-parse seems to work fine without the suffix:

git rev-parse v2.6.39
8b0753a3df28c21b0570fa21362c5f1b3b4f59bf

This is in a kernel git repository

Thanks
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