How to get hash of most recent git commit in Node

Question

I'd like to get the id/hash of the most recent commit on the current branch in NodeJS.

In NodeJS, I'd like to get the most recent id/hash, with respect to git and commits. How to do that?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

Try this:

revision = require('child_process')
  .execSync('git rev-parse HEAD')
  .toString().trim()

and if you want to manually specify the root directory of the git project, use the second argument of execSync to pass the cwd option, like execSync('git rev-parse HEAD', {cwd: __dirname})

Hope it helps!!

Thank You!!