How can I view a specific commit?

To view the details of a specific commit, you use the command git show with the first few characters of the commit's hash. For example, the command git show 0da2f7 produces this:

commit 0da2f7ad11664ca9ed933c1ccd1f3cd24d481e42
Author: Rep Loop <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Sep 5 15:39:18 2018 +0000

    Added year to report title.

diff --git a/report.txt b/report.txt
index e713b17..4c0742a 100644
--- a/report.txt
+++ b/report.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Seasonal Dental Surgeries 2017-18
+# Seasonal Dental Surgeries (2017) 2017-18

 TODO: write executive summary.

The first part is the same as the log entry shown by git log. The second part shows the changes; as with git diff, lines that the change removed are prefixed with -, while lines that it added are prefixed with +.

You have been put in the dental directory. Use git log to see the hashes of recent commits, and then git show with the first few digits of a hash to look at the most recent commit. How many files did it change?

Reminder: press the space bar to page down through git log's output and q to quit the paged display.

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How can I view a specific commit?

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