Git command to display HEAD commit id

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What command can I use to print out the commit id of HEAD   This is what I m doing by hand     cat  git HEAD ref  refs heads v3 3   cat  git refs heads v3 3 6050732e725c68b83c35c873ff8808dff1c406e1   But I need a script that can reliably pipe the output of some command to a text file such that the text file contains exactly the commit id of HEAD  nothing more or less  and not just a ref    Can anyone help

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You can use   git log -g branchname   to see git reflog information formatted like the git log output

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Play with Bash   git show HEAD   sed -n 1p   cut -d     -f 2

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You can use this command    git rev-list HEAD  You can also use the head Unix command to show the latest n HEAD commits like    git rev-list HEAD   head - 2

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Old thread  still for future reference      even following works  git show-ref --head   by default HEAD is filtered out  Be careful about following though   plural  heads  with a  s  at the end  The following command shows branches under  refs heads    git show-ref --heads

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Use the command   git rev-parse HEAD   For the short version   git rev-parse --short HEAD

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git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

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You can specify git log options to show only the last commit  -1  and a format that includes only the commit ID  like this   git log -1 --format  H  If you prefer the shortened commit ID   git log -1 --format  h

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According to  https   git-scm com docs git-log   for more pretty output in console you can use --decorate argument of git-log command   git log --pretty oneline --decorate   will print   2a5ccd714972552064746e0fb9a7aed747e483c7  HEAD - gt  master  New commit fe00287269b07e2e44f25095748b86c5fc50a3ef  tag  v1 1-01  Commit 3 08ed8cceb27f4f5e5a168831d20a9d2fa5c91d8b  tag  v1 1  tag  v1 0-0 1  commit 1 116340f24354497af488fd63f4f5ad6286e176fc  tag  v1 0  second 52c1cdcb1988d638ec9e05a291e137912b56b3af test

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git log -1   for only commit id  git log   head -n 1

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