From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:36:00 GMT
Subject: Re: get-upstream
Message-ID: <20100923053600.GA27540@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikYnj_00Pdsm+QM1=kvqMpeKDCeOOqOS0XEwMXg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:15:00PM -0600, Pat Notz wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{upstream}
> 
> In all fairness, the @{upstream} syntax requires git >= 1.7.0

You can also use:

  git for-each-ref --format='%(upstream)' `git symbolic-ref HEAD`

which has worked since v1.6.3. It also has the advantage that you can
ask for the upstream of something besides the HEAD.

-Peff