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From: Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Subject: Getting the commit that corresponds to a specific annotated tag
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 16:47:43 -0500
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Hi

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?

Cheers

Adam