How to find a commit by its hash?

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Git Problem Overview

I need to find a commit in Git by a given hash, SHA. For example, if I have the "a2c25061" hash, and I need to get the author and the committer of this commit.

What is the command to get that?

Git Solutions

Solution 1 - Git

Just use the following command

git show a2c25061

Solution 2 - Git

git log -1 --format="%an %ae%n%cn %ce" a2c25061

The Pretty Formats section of the git show documentation contains

> * format:<string> > > The format:<string> format allows you to specify which information you want to show. It works a little bit like printf format, with the notable exception that you get a newline with %n instead of \n … > > The placeholders are: > > * %an: author name > * %ae: author email > * %cn: committer name > * %ce: committer email

Solution 3 - Git

There are two ways to do this.

1. providing the SHA of the commit you want to see to git log

git log -p a2c25061

Where -p is short for patch

2. use git show

git show a2c25061

The output for both commands will be:

  • the commit
  • the author
  • the date
  • the commit message
  • the patch information
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