How to tell which commit a tag points to in Git?
One way to do this would be with git rev-list. The following will output the commit to which a tag points:
$ git rev-list -n 1 $TAGNOTE This works for both Annotated and Unannotated tags
You could add it as an alias in ~/.gitconfig if you use it a lot:
[alias] tagcommit = rev-list -n 1And then call it with:
$ git tagcommit $TAGPossible pitfall: if you have a local checkout or a branch of the same tag name, this solution might get you "warning: refname 'myTag' is ambiguous". In that case, try increasing specificity, e.g.:
$ git rev-list -n 1 tags/$TAG
WARNING This only works for Unannotated tags Therefore it is safer to use the accepted answer which works in the general case https://stackoverflow.com/a/1862542/1586965
git show-ref --tagsFor example, git show-ref --abbrev=7 --tags will show you something like the following:
f727215 refs/tags/v2.16.056072ac refs/tags/v2.17.0b670805 refs/tags/v2.17.1250ed01 refs/tags/v2.17.2