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I cloned a git repository yesterday and am using it in Ubuntu. I need to find the version of that cloned repository I am using. What is the command for that?

yolo
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You can use the more common git log -1 or the less used git rev-parse HEAD

Sauhard Sharma
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Neeraj Bansal
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If you have not pushed yes, you can check the version of origin/master, or of FETCH_HEAD (see FETCH_HEAD)

cd /path/to/your/local/cloned/repo
git rev-parse origin/master
git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD

That will give you the commit ID (SHA1) of what was last fetched.

VonC
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  • Thanks for the answer. But I get this output: user@lappy:~$ git rev-parse fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git user@lappy:~$ user@lappy:~$ 17 17: command not found user@lappy:~$ 191 191: command not found user@lappy:~$ user@lappy:~$ 37 37: command not found user@lappy:~$ user@lappy:~$ mjkaufer/Messer bash: mjkaufer/Messer: No such file or directory user@lappy:~$ As we see, it says its not a git repo at all. But it is! The repo: https://github.com/mjkaufer/Messer/issues/63 – yolo Jun 03 '18 at 06:13
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    @shanmuganathan Yes, I have edited the answer: you need to execute that command in the root folder of your cloned repository. And `~` (`$HOME`) should not be a Git repository. One of your subfolder should be a Git repository: `git clone /url/to/repo` would create a `repo` subfolder. – VonC Jun 03 '18 at 06:14
  • "git clone /url/to/repo would create a repo subfolder." I already did that while cloning the repo – yolo Jun 03 '18 at 06:18
  • @shanmuganathan Do you remember in which folder (presumably your home directory) you were when you typed `git clone /url/to/remote/repo`? That command will have created a subfolder, by default named after the repository name. Do a `cd repo` and you would be in that repository folder. – VonC Jun 03 '18 at 06:19
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    @shanmuganathan " I already did that while cloning the repo": yes, now you need to go in that repository, with a `cd name-of-your-repository` – VonC Jun 03 '18 at 06:19
  • I got it. Thanks. – yolo Jun 05 '18 at 05:40