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Get the SHA of some git branch.
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get_git_branch_sha.sh
# Get the SHA of some branch. There must be a better way to do this.
git log -1 --pretty=oneline origin/somebranch | sed -E "s/^([^[:space:]]+).*/\1/"
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scottwb commented Jan 29, 2011

This just in: Someone posted a comment on my blog about this with an even better way:

git log -1 --pretty=format:%H

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