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Re: git-branch --print-current

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Jan 4, 2009, 03:38 UTC
Message-ID
<20090104033839.GD21154@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To
<quack.20090103T1818.lth7i5bg6f7@roar.cs.berkeley.edu>
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 06:18:36PM -0800, Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> How about an option to git-symbolic-ref that gets rid of the
> refs/heads/ ?
Make an alias?
git config alias.cb '!sh -c "git symbolic-ref HEAD|sed s,refs/heads/,,"'

$ git cb master

(Where cb can stand for 'current branch', for example.)
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  1. Karl ChenJan 2, 2009
  2. David AguilarJan 2, 2009
  3. Karl ChenJan 4, 2009
  4. Miklos VajnaJan 4, 2009
  5. Karl ChenJan 4, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 4, 2009
  7. git-rev-parse --symbolic-abbrev-name [was Re: git-branch --print-current]Karl Chen, Jan 4, 2009
  8. demerphqJan 4, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 4, 2009
  10. Arnaud LacombeJan 4, 2009
  11. Miklos VajnaJan 4, 2009
  12. Arnaud LacombeJan 5, 2009
  13. Miklos VajnaJan 5, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoJan 6, 2009
  15. Arnaud LacombeJan 7, 2009
  16. demerphqJan 4, 2009
  17. Junio C HamanoJan 5, 2009
  18. Shawn O. PearceJan 5, 2009
  19. Junio C HamanoJan 5, 2009
  20. Jeff KingJan 5, 2009
  21. Arnaud LacombeJan 4, 2009
  22. Karl ChenJan 4, 2009
  23. demerphqJan 4, 2009
  24. Arnaud LacombeJan 4, 2009
  25. Adeodato SimóJan 4, 2009
  26. Jakub NarebskiJan 4, 2009
  27. Alexandre DulaunoyJan 4, 2009
  28. demerphqJan 4, 2009

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