From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:55:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git-branch --print-current
Message-ID: <1a69a9d80901040955v51671b1dv6ca6fc644455b6b1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9b18b3110901040449x65c63d6fo3d9fec9ddd5670c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:49 AM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/4 Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu>:
>> On 2009-01-04 00:21 PST, Arnaud Lacombe writes:
>>    Arnaud> $ git branch | awk '/^\*/ {print $2}'
>>
>> Yet another addition to the list of ways to pipeline it, this one
>> probably the shortest :)
>
> Unfortunately it doesnt work well when you arent on a branch:
>
>  $ git branch | awk '/^\*/ {print $2}'
>  (no
>
> So far two apparently expert git people have given solutions to this
> problem that don't elegantly handle the edge cases.
>
my bad:
$ git branch | awk '/^\*/ {print substr($0, 3)}'

 - Arnaud