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Kostas
Kostas

Reputation: 1322

Git equivalent of "hg id"?

Does Git have any command equivalent to Mercurial's "hg id"? I.e. a command that prints the parent commit's hash and a plus sign if there are changes in the working directory?

Upvotes: 21

Views: 4295

Answers (5)

vdsbenoit
vdsbenoit

Reputation: 370

git ls-remote REPOSITORY BRANCH will show the hash of the head of a given branch.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-ls-remote.html

Upvotes: 0

smammy
smammy

Reputation: 2830

This command is equivalent to hg id --id:

git describe --abbrev=12 --always --dirty=+

Upvotes: 14

Adam Dymitruk
Adam Dymitruk

Reputation: 129614

git log -1 HEAD^

will show you the whole commit including the SHA-1

If it's a merge, you can see the second parent's commit info with

git log -1 HEAD^2

If you have an octopus merge with more than 2 parents you can put any number in the tree-ish spec:

git log -1 HEAD^5

... to see the 5th parent's commit info

the -1 just limits the log output to one commit. You don't want the lineage of that commit reported.

Upvotes: 3

Prakash Murthy
Prakash Murthy

Reputation: 13067

git status would show the changes in the working directory, and the branch info.

I guess git log can be used to see the last few commits.

Upvotes: 0

Greg Hewgill
Greg Hewgill

Reputation: 993611

I don't think there's a command exactly like that, but you can use:

git status --porcelain

which outputs a machine-readable listing of changed files in the repository. You can look for anything in the first column that is not ? to indicate a changed file.

Upvotes: 1

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