From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:38:39 GMT
Subject: Re: git-branch --print-current
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.)