无需克隆即可获取Github存储库的最新git commit哈希

Question

Is it possible to remotely retrieve the latest commit hash of a Github repo without cloning it locally? I'm referring to something like the following you see at the top of all the repos in Github:

Based on some older questions it seems that this may not be possible with git directly (unless there's a new feature that enables it), so the right answer might involve using the Github API (turns out Github API won't work for my use case since I'll have to use a different set of credentials then the private key git uses).

Answer 1

Found the answer here thanks to @jszakmeister:

git ls-remote $URL HEAD

For my private repo, I had to use the following syntax instead of the URL:

git ls-remote git@github.com:ORG/PROJECT.git HEAD