Get git tail hashes from your repository in reverse chronological order

It sucks when you could do git show HEAD but not git show TAIL. git-tails comes to the rescue!

Did you know that there could be more than one tails in your git repository?

Install

$ npm install --save git-tails

Usage

var gitTails = require('git-tails');

gitTails(function(err, data) {
  console.log(data);
  //=> ['0cd33254f2df29272323dca4f052be70d9659174']
});

gitTails.sync()
//=> ['0cd33254f2df29272323dca4f052be70d9659174']

$ npm install --global git-tails
$ git-tails
0cd33254f2df29272323dca4f052be70d9659174

To get the earliest tail you just need to do

gitTails(function(err, data) {
  console.log(data[data.length - 1]);
  //=> '0cd33254f2df29272323dca4f052be70d9659174'
});

If you know there is only one tails you could do

$ git show `git-tails`

Just like git show HEAD.

License

MIT © Steve Mao