How do I get a URL for a specific revision on github?

Question

Here is a sample project on github: http://github.com/ripper234/Test-grails-project

I would like to capture the latest revision, and send a link to it to someone, so that even if the project changes later he will see the specific revision I was talking about. I guess forking could do that, but it's overkill.

How do I do that?

Answer 1

I'm not too familiar with GitHub (I use Gitorious myself), but it seems like the "tree" link on the upper-right does the job.

In this case: http://github.com/ripper234/Test-grails-project/tree/37f3478cc8fc56c0e9d932a3f096c7286ecb37de

EDIT: Alternatively, you could try asking in #github in irc.freenode.org - here's their web IRC client: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#github

Answer 2

let's say you would like that the someone you send this link

• http://github.com/ripper234/Test-grails-project/commit/c3110a562339a20eaa4c99e25d2e92538bd6c23d

has to work on the resulting code of this commit.

he would do this:

• git clone git://github.com/ripper234/Test-grails-project.git
• cd Test-grails-project
• git checkout c3110a562339a20eaa4c99e
• git branch c3110a562339a20eaa4c99e

now the user has a branch with the code of the mentioned commit.

does this answer your question? -> not sure if I understood it right...