The SHA1 hashes stored in the tree objects (as returned by git ls-tree) do not match the SHA1 hashes of the file content (as returned by sha1sum): $ git cat-file blob 4716ca912495c805b94a88ef6dc3fb...

How do I get the hash of the current commit in Git?

I would like to include the current git hash in the output of a Python script (as a the version number of the code that generated that output). How can I access the current git hash in my Python s...

I am writing a script that requires checking whether a particular commit is a Merge/Revert commit or not, and I am wondering if there is a git trick for that. What I came up with so far (and I def...

If a Git commit hash has multiple tags associated with it and/or is the head of multiple branches, is there a good way to list all of them? I've looked through the options to git name-rev, git desc...

I am confused with how a file's actual contents are stored in .git. For e.g. Version 1 is the actual text content in test.txt. When I commit (first commit) it to the repo, git returns a SHA-1 for ...

I find it hard to wrap my head around how Git creates fully unique hashes that aren't allowed to be the same even in the first 4 characters. I'm able to call commits in Git Bash using only the firs...

Let's say I want to write a small helper that allows to append some metadata to a repository in a way that can propagate to clones via refs. Simple example (a git-notes clone prototype that doesn't...

$ git describe --tags --long test-1-g3c31c73 \_ ??? The g3c31c73 doesn't seem to point to anything... The doc says it's the abbreviated object name of the most recent commit, but it's not the HE...