Referencing the child of a commit in Git

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Very probably not the fastest possible solution, but it does what I need:

#!/bin/bash

REV=$1

if [[ -z "$REV" ]]; then
    echo "Usage: git-get-child  []"
    exit
fi

HASH=$(git rev-parse $REV)

NUM=$2

if [[ -z "$NUM" ]]; then
    NUM=1
fi

git rev-list --all --parents | grep " $HASH" | sed -n "${NUM}s/\([^ ]*\) .*$/\\1/p"

The git rev-list --all --parents does exactly what I need: it iterates over all reachable commits, and prints the following line for each:

SHA1_commit SHA1_parent1 SHA1_parent2 etc.

The space in the grep expression ensures that only those lines are found where the SHA1 in question is a parent. Then we get the nth line for the nth child and get the child’s SHA1.

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