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[PATCH v2 2/3] for-each-ref: introduce %(HEAD) asterisk marker

From
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 28, 2013, 02:59 UTC
Message-ID
<1380337161-803-3-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<1380337161-803-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

'git branch' shows which branch you are currently on with an '*', but 'git for-each-ref' misses this feature. So, extend its format with %(HEAD) for the same effect.

Now you can use the following format in for-each-ref:
  %C(red)%(HEAD)%C(reset) %(refname:short)
to display a red asterisk next to the current ref.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt |  4 ++++
 builtin/for-each-ref.c             | 13 +++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index 6fa4464..bb9c4c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ upstream::
 	from the displayed ref. Respects `:short` in the same way as
 	`refname` above.
 
+HEAD::
+	Used to indicate the currently checked out branch.  Is '*' if
+	HEAD points to the current ref, and ' ' otherwise.
+
 In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header
 field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can
 be used to specify the value in the header field.
diff --git a/builtin/for-each-ref.c b/builtin/for-each-ref.c
index 6da2903..b841545 100644
--- a/builtin/for-each-ref.c
+++ b/builtin/for-each-ref.c
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ static struct {
 	{ "upstream" },
 	{ "symref" },
 	{ "flag" },
+	{ "HEAD" },
 };
 
 /*
@@ -682,8 +683,16 @@ static void populate_value(struct refinfo *ref)
 				v->s = xstrdup(buf + 1);
 			}
 			continue;
-		}
-		else
+		} else if (!strcmp(name, "HEAD")) {
+			const char *head;
+			unsigned char sha1[20];
+			head = resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", sha1, 1, NULL);
+			if (!strcmp(ref->refname, head))
+				v->s = "*";
+			else
+				v->s = " ";
+			continue;
+		} else
 			continue;
 
 		formatp = strchr(name, ':');
-- 
1.8.4.477.g4cae6f5
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