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Git command to print the SHA1 of the nth commit
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3_git_print_sha1_of_certain_commit
# where 6 = showing the sixth commit.
git rev-list --all | tail -n 6 | head -n 1
# $> b753a30804cc0770b52686166a21cbdea642ff08
# Knowing the output, we can then do the following to checkout to that certain commit
git checkout b753
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