Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] branch: introduce --show-current display option

From: Daniels Umanovskis <daniels@umanovskis.se>
Date: Oct 11, 2018, 16:36 UTC
Message-ID: <1409ebd2-d72c-fbd6-bf5c-777342723ca2@umanovskis.se>
In-Reply-To: <20181011154319.GA6386@rigel>

On 10/11/18 5:43 PM, Rafael Ascensão wrote:

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> I agree it feels a bit out of place, and still think that
> 
>     $ git branch --list HEAD
> 
> would be a good candidate to be taught how to print the current branch.

I am not a fan because it would be yet another inconsistency in the Git command interface. An argument given after git branch --list means a pattern for the branches to list. Making HEAD print the current branch would be an exception to what an argument in that place means. Yes, HEAD itself is a very special string in git, but I'm not a fan of syntax where a specific argument value does something very different from any other value in that place.