From: mdconf@seznam.cz
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:14:33 GMT
Subject: Git Feature Request - show current branch
Message-ID: <13b.3lxh{.41MsIT3sthY.1KvU6v@seznam.cz>

Hello,

To start with, I did not find an official way to submit feature request so hopefully this is the right way to do so - if not then my apologize & appreciate if somebody could re-submit to the proper place.

I'd like to request adding a parameter to 'git branch' that would only show the current branch (w/o the star) - i.e. the outcome should only be the name of the branch that is normally marked with the star when I do 'git branch' command. This may be very helpful in some external scripts that just simply need to know the name of the current branch. I know there are multiple ways to do this today (some described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6245570/how-to-get-current-branch-name-in-git) but I really think that adding simple argument to 'git branch' would be very useful instead of forcing people to use 'workarounds'.

My suggestion is is to name the parameter '--current' or '--show-current'.
Example:

Command: git branch
Outcome:
 branchA
 branchB
* master

Command: git branch --current
Outcome:
master

Thank you,
Martin