Is there any way to get the SHA of a commit from its message?

Question

When doing a git tag, I\'m not always great at remembering if HEAD~6 (for example) is inclusive or exclusive.

Given that most of my commits are prefixed wi

Answer 1

Try

git rev-list --grep='message excerpt' HEAD

This will only list commits that are ancestors of HEAD. If you wanted to search all commits in the repository (including those that are not ancestors of HEAD), I'm not sure how to do that other than by manually going through all the branch heads manually and running this command. (There's probably a way, I just don't know what it might be)