GIT-GET-TAR-COMMIT-ID(1)

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💅 GIT-GET-TAR-COMMIT-ID(1) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Git Manual page for git-get-tar-commit-id — yes that whole mouthful is the title, we don't make the rules ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

git-get-tar-commit-id — literally extracts the commit ID out of an archive that was made with git-archive 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

git get-tar-commit-id

that's it. that's the whole command. no flags, no args, she's a one-trick pony and she ATE 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: you pipe a tar archive into her on standard input — one that was created by git archive, yeah? — and she reaches in and pulls out the commit ID that's stored inside it 🔥 no cap, that's the whole vibe.

the way she only reads the first 1024 bytes of input... like she does NOT have time to read your whole archive. so her runtime is barely influenced by the size of the tar archive at all. tiny effort, iconic results 🧚

and if there's no commit ID in there? she doesn't throw a whole tantrum, she just quietly exits with a return code of 1 💀 super chill about it honestly.

when does that happen, you ask? two situations, bestie:

  • the archive wasn't created using git archive at all 🙈
  • or it was, but the first parameter of git archive was a tree ID instead of a commit ID or tag 😭

that's it. that's the whole tea. 🍓

👑 GIT 👑

she's part of the git(1) suite, obviously. main character energy by association 💜

anyway that's the whole page bestie, go forth and extract those commit IDs 🫶

sign-off time: this was Git 2.56.0, dated 2026-09-27 — see you in the next manpage, mwah 💖

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