All this command does is show you the most recent annotated tag that is reachable from a commit. This may be useful for build and release scripts and also to find out which version a change was introduced.

This command takes a reference or commit hash and response with the most recent tag. If there was a commit after the tag, the tag will be followed by the number of commits and a letter “g” with the new commit hash.

git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/john/Projects/git-stash-test/.git/
 
echo "bacon" > bacon.txt
git add bacon.txt
git commit -am "add bacon file"
[master (root-commit) 12da48f] add bacon file
 
PETER CONTINUE from here...
 
 
 
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 bacon.txt
 
ls
bacon.txt
 
echo "bits" >> bacon.txt
git stash
Saved working directory and index state WIP on master: 6d2649a initial commit 
HEAD is now at 6d2649a initial commit
 
git stash list
stash@{0}: WIP on master: 6d2649a initial commit
 
git show stash@{0}
commit d152562d7dcbf7ebdf806977cae8308f1e7bb663
Merge: 6d2649a d5b0ce0
Author: John Smith <john.smith@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 22 02:26:34 2015 -0700
 
   WIP on master: 6d2649a initial commit
 
diff --cc bacon.txt
index 6e953b2,63953b2..b11453f
--- a/bacon.txt
+++ b/bacon.txt
@@@ -1,1 -1,1 +1,2 @@@
  bacon
++bits
 
git log --oneline
6d2649a initial commit
 
git branch
* master
 
git fsck --lost-found
Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done.
 
git show-ref
6d2649ab6b3f34ecf5437314f08f9b291f8fb9e3 refs/heads/master
d152562d7dcbf7ebdf806977cae8308f1e7bb663 refs/stash