Get the short Git version hash

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Is there a cleaner way to get the short version hash of HEAD from Git   I want to see the same output as I get from    git log -n 1   head -n 1   sed -e  s  commit       head -c 8     I originally used the above command to generate a version string  but this is even better   git describe --tags   It will output strings like 0 1 12  tagged commit  or 0 1 11-5-g0c85fbc  five commits after the tag

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Branch with short hash and last comment    git branch -v    develop      717c2f9  ahead 42  blabla   master       2722bbe  ahead 1  bla

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I have Git version 2 7 4 with the following settings   git config --global log abbrevcommit yes git config --global core abbrev 8   Now when I do   git log --pretty oneline   I get an abbreviated commit id of eight digits   ed054a38 add project based  gitignore 30a3fa4c add ez version 0a6e9015 add logic for shifting days af4ab954 add n days ago

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You can do just about any format you want with --pretty format   git log -1 --pretty format  h

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A really simple way is to   git describe --always

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git log -1 --abbrev-commit   will also do it   git log --abbrev-commit   will list the log entries with abbreviated SHA-1 checksum

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what about this      git log --pretty   h  cD  cn  s      it shows someting like     674cd0d Wed  20 Nov 2019 12 15 38  0000 Bob commit message  see the pretty format documentation enter link description here

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Try this   git rev-parse --short HEAD   The command git rev-parse can do a remarkable number of different things  so you d need to go through the documentation very carefully to spot that though

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A simple way to see the Git commit short version and the Git commit message is   git log --oneline   Note that this is shorthand for  git log --pretty oneline --abbrev-commit

[git] Get the short Git version hash

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