Git is an open-source and free distributed version control system.
In this shot, we learn how to retrieve the hash for the current commit in Git. We do this using the following Git command:
$ git rev-parse HEAD
Let's see an example.
# Create folder$ mkdir example# Move to that folder$ cd example# Create a file and write content with the command$ echo "This is a test file" | tee test.txt# Set a dummy username and email$ git config --global user.email "example@example.com"$ git config --global user.name "example"# Initiate git$ git init# Add all files in the current folder to git$ git add .# Create a commit$ git commit -m "Added test file"# Get the hash code for the latest commit$ git rev-parse HEAD
We follow these steps in the example above:
example and create a file in it.git rev-parsecommand.We can see the hash for the latest commit in the terminal below.