Re: [PATCH] revisions: add @{default} shorthand for default branch

From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2026, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20260202230302.13009-1-haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALnO6CDrdfSFuY8xjvno3+2MVB2JHUYdNsYTYqqRsfcDiWa1uQ@mail.gmail.com>

> That just makes discovering the name of the remote the "interesting" part…

Yeah, this is true! Discovering which is the upstream remote is still non-trivial. It's aggravated because the GitHub 'gh' tool will rename 'origin' to 'upstream' when forking + creating PR from the CLI.

Which I why I do this becomes necessary

    git remote | rg '^(origin|upstream)$' | tail -n1

Harald

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