Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] branch: introduce --show-current display option

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 11, 2018, 17:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20181011175136.GA8825@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1409ebd2-d72c-fbd6-bf5c-777342723ca2@umanovskis.se>

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 06:36:02PM +0200, Daniels Umanovskis wrote:

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> On 10/11/18 5:43 PM, Rafael Ascensão wrote:
> > I agree it feels a bit out of place, and still think that
> > 
> >     $ git branch --list HEAD
> > 
> > would be a good candidate to be taught how to print the current branch.
> 
> I am not a fan because it would be yet another inconsistency in the Git
> command interface. An argument given after git branch --list means a
> pattern for the branches to list. Making HEAD print the current branch
> would be an exception to what an argument in that place means. Yes, HEAD
> itself is a very special string in git, but I'm not a fan of syntax
> where a specific argument value does something very different from any
> other value in that place.

Yeah, I agree. If we were to go this route, it should probably be:

  git branch --list-head

Which sounds a lot like what you are proposing, but I think the name implies more strongly "show --list, but only for the HEAD". I.e., for the detached case, show the "HEAD detached at..." text.

-Peff