Re: git-branch --print-current

From: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 2, 2009, 04:26 UTC
Message-ID: <402731c90901012026j470f35ffj1eaa189a837054f3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <quack.20090101T1928.lthzliaqtdf@roar.cs.berkeley.edu>

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

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> How about an option to git-branch that just prints the name of
> the current branch for scripts' sake?  To replace:
>
>    git branch --no-color 2>/dev/null | perl -ne '/^[*] (.*)/ && print $1'

The justification I've heard before is that 'git branch' is a porcelain and thus we shouldn't rely on its output for scripting purposes.

You might want to use 'git symbolic-ref' instead.

$ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master

$ git symbolic-ref HEAD | sed -e 's,refs/heads/,,' master

-- 
    David