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Re: Find main branch

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KKKonstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>
Date
Jan 14, 2016, 18:53 UTC
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:40:15 +0000 pedro rijo <pedrorijo91@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Stefan Beller solution is based on the server, which may not be very
> easy to do when dealing with Github/Bitbucket/Gitlab and other God
> knows which provider.
> 
> Konstantin ls-remote solution is the one I'm already using, but if I
> have several branches on that commit, I will not be able to decide.
> 
> I thought that the 'main' branch information was stored in git, and
> possibly with some way to access it with a git command

It *is* stored in the Git repository -- in the HEAD ref. The question of how to retreive precisely this bit of information -- I don't really know. Basically you want `git show-remote-ref --head` but Git does not have such a command, only `git show-ref` ;-)

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  1. pedro rijoJan 14, 2016
  2. Stefan BellerJan 14, 2016
  3. Konstantin KhomoutovJan 14, 2016
  4. pedro rijoJan 14, 2016
  5. Konstantin KhomoutovJan 14, 2016
  6. Bryan TurnerJan 14, 2016
  7. Jeff KingJan 14, 2016
  8. pedro rijoJan 15, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 15, 2016
  10. Jeff KingJan 15, 2016
  11. Jeff KingJan 14, 2016

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