Is there an easy way to find the SHA1 of the first commit in a project with a long history with git?
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Is there an easy way to find the SHA1 of the first commit in a project with a long history with git?
Just off the top of my HEAD, this should get one of the ‘first’ commits of the current branch.
(If the branch contiains two unrelated branches which have been merged together, it’s not guaranteed which root you will get but you could use
--date-orderto select the oldest.)