How to find the latest commit made on a branch?

[Vivek P]

I'm trying to extract the last commit made to a certain branch.

I have something like this here:

https://stash.mycompany.com/rest/branch-utils/1.0/projects/{abcd}/repos/{abcde-fghi}/branches/info/{CommitID} but what I do not get in this request is the time the last commit was made to this branch.

Is there a way to achieve that?

[somethingblue]

Hi Vivek,

You can use the following to get the last commit:

git log -1 

To just get the date you can do the following:

git log -1 --format=%cd 

Cheers,

Branden

[Roby-TP-RDJ]

git ls-remote may helps

git ls-remote <repo> refs/heads/<branch>

 output:

d70deff2e5dd953d933dfe308f076e7139be1182 refs/heads/master

[Mohamad Bathulah Bin Mohamad Mahir]

I get from calling this using curl :

curl -u <bitbucket_username>:<app_password>  https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/<workspace>/<repository>/commits/master | python3 -c "import json,sys;obj=json.load(sys.stdin);print(obj['values'][0]['hash']);

It will directly give you the commit_no. 

[Julius Davies _GitBoost_com_]

If you need to get latest commit on a branch through the REST api, try the "/commits" call with the "until" parameter set to the branch you are interested in, and limit=1 to get the single tip commit from the branch.

Example:

http://vm.bit-booster.com/bitbucket/rest/api/1.0/projects/BB/repos/aui/commits?until=master&limit=1

The "authorTimestamp" in the result will tell you when the commit was first created.

If you're on Bitbucket 5.0 or newer, then a "committerTimestamp" should be present as well.   If an original commit was rebased or cherry-picked or squashed, the "committerTimestamp" will tell you when those operations happened.

The actual "push" time for when the commit arrived at the server is much harder to determine.