Month: November 2022

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See the real details of a git commit

The command to see the details of a git commit, specifically the tree attached to it, is:

git cat-file -p HEAD

It produces an output like this:

jason@rise22:~/code/appcove/HKSickler$ git cat-file -p HEAD
tree f388dffd7ac29813d4a61a1cfd9f4a03518c3c56
parent 2752fafb51cb58c288adcd5d0a6f262943416683
parent cd6ce6f905ef61d019fbbd16e157ef0389f809ef
author Jason Garber <jgarber@appcove.com> 1669396739 -0500
committer Jason Garber <jgarber@appcove.com> 1669396739 -0500

Merge: merge this and that ....