From: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:40:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git checkout -b: unparent the new branch with -o
Message-ID: <36ca99e91003112340u6256ef4dwb40e308c9a5e3a46@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vr5nqrpyg.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:53, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com> writes:
>> +     test "alpha" = "$(git branch | sed -n "/*/s/\* //p")" &&
>
> Don't read from "git branch" in scripts; use symbolic-ref on HEAD.

I think what he wants is:

        git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

Bert
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