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Asked: 2026-06-10T12:48:25+00:00

I am fairly new to Github and have come across an amateur-ish problem. I

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I am fairly new to Github and have come across an amateur-ish problem.

I have been asked to do a code review and have been provided with a commit hash, however I have tried looking in Git if I can search using commit hashes but couldn’t find anything.

Is there a way I can find the changed code just by using the commit hash?

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  1. Editorial Team

    A URL of the form https://github.com/<owner>/<project>/commit/<hash> will show you the changes introduced in that commit. For example here’s a recent bugfix I made to one of my projects on GitHub:

    https://github.com/jerith666/git-graph/commit/35e32b6a00dec02ae7d7c45c6b7106779a124685

    You can also shorten the hash to any unique prefix, like so:

    https://github.com/jerith666/git-graph/commit/35e32b

    I know you just asked about GitHub, but for completeness: If you have the repository checked out, from the command line, you can achieve basically the same thing with either of these commands (unique prefixes work here too):

    git show 35e32b6a00dec02ae7d7c45c6b7106779a124685
git log -p -1 35e32b6a00dec02ae7d7c45c6b7106779a124685

    Note: If you shorten the commit hash too far, the command line gives you a helpful disambiguation message, but GitHub will just return a 404.

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