Find a commit on GitHub given the commit hash

Question

I am fairly new to Github and have come across an amateur-ish problem   I have been asked to do a code review and have been provided with a commit hash  however I have tried looking in Git if I can search using commit hashes but couldn t find anything   Is there a way I can find the changed code just by using the commit hash

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The ability to search commits has recently been added to GitHub.

To search for a hash, just enter at least the first 7 characters in the search box. Then on the results page, click the "Commits" tab to see matching commits (but only on the default branch, usually master), or the "Issues" tab to see pull requests containing the commit.

To be more explicit you can add the hash: prefix to the search, but it's not really necessary.

There is also a REST API (at the time of writing it is still in preview).

User · Answer

A URL of the form https   github com  lt owner gt   lt project gt  commit  lt hash gt  will show you the changes introduced in that commit   For example here s a recent bugfix I made to one of my projects on GitHub   https   github com jerith666 git-graph commit 35e32b6a00dec02ae7d7c45c6b7106779a124685  You can also shorten the hash to any unique prefix  like so   https   github com jerith666 git-graph commit 35e32b    I know you just asked about GitHub  but for completeness  If you have the repository checked out  from the command line  you can achieve basically the same thing with either of these commands  unique prefixes work here too    git show 35e32b6a00dec02ae7d7c45c6b7106779a124685 git log -p -1 35e32b6a00dec02ae7d7c45c6b7106779a124685   Note  If you shorten the commit hash too far  the command line gives you a helpful disambiguation message  but GitHub will just return a 404

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View single commit  https   github com  lt user gt   lt project gt  commit  lt hash gt   View log  https   github com  lt user gt   lt project gt  commits  lt hash gt   View full repo  https   github com  lt user gt   lt project gt  tree  lt hash gt    lt hash gt  can be any length as long as it is unique

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