git log of a single revision
Michal Trybus' answer is the best for simplicity. But if you don't want the diff in your output you can always do something like:
git log -1 -U cThat will give you the commit log, and then you'll have full control over all the git logging options for your automation purposes. In your instance you said you wanted the change-set. The most human-readable way to accomplish that would be:
git log --name-status --diff-filter="[A|C|D|M|R|T]" -1 -U cOr, if you're using a git version greater than 1.8.X it would be:
git log --name-status --diff-filter="ACDMRT" -1 -U cThis will give you results similar to:
commit {c}Author: zedoo <zedoo@stackoverflow.com>Date: Thu Aug 2 {time-stamp} {short description}D zedoo/foo.pyA zedoo/bar.pyOf course you can filter out whichever events you see fit, and format the return as you wish via the traditional git-log commands which are well documented here.