Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

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Perhaps you want to create specific branches from specific commit hashes. The first thought might be to check out the commit, and then create a branch; however, it is much easier to use the git branch command to create the branches without checking out the commits:

1. If you need a branch from a specific commit hash, you can create it with the git branch command as follows:

$ git branch anotherBugFix 979e346 
$ git log -1 anotherBugFix --format=format:%h 
979e346 

$ git log -1 anotherBugFix --format=format:%H 
979e3467112618cc787e161097986212eaaa4533 

2. As you can see, the abbreviated commit hash is shown when you use %h, and the full commit hash is shown when you use %H. You can see that the abbreviated commit hash is the same ...