Formal notation for Git (repository, branch, commit) tuple

Question

Use case: I am logging my CI pipeline that deploys the tip of a specific branch of a repository.

Although plain, verbose English is always an option, a standardized format for representing a specific commit from a specific branch of a repository seems more appropriate.

I would imagine that such a notation would be indispensable for logging/documentation purposes; something along the lines of:

TIMESTAMP: REPO<separator1>BRANCH<separator2>COMMIT -> HOST

If this can be generalized across version control systems, all the better. My Google searches have not thrown up anything worthwhile on the subject.

Answer 1

There is no such settings and configurations for git itself to show repo, branch, commit together.

As Jonathon mentioned, the relationship among repo, branch and commit usually does not as 1:1:1.

And if you want to get if a certain commit belongs to a remote repo or a branch, or which repo, branch(es) the certain commit belongs to, you can use use scripts to achieve it. Main commands used for the script as:

• Check a certain commit belongs to which branch(es):

  git branch --contains <commit>
  

• Check if a branch has tracking branch (in order to get the remote repo):

  git rev-parse --abbrev-ref <branch>@{upstream}
  

Answer 2

Proposition

timestamp: repo/branch#commit -> HOST

e.g.

20200506_134321: my-site/master#c37107b0c -> HOST