From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 12:28:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature request: git status --branch-only
Message-ID: <47fa8400-1e5f-437f-84b8-50bb09580325@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJsoDaFX7YdncsTy7UsjxaM1GCKs36-H5RhJ6kzgBUFBJyoGZQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ondra

On 14/11/2023 10:16, Ondra Medek wrote:
> Hello,
> I am working on a tol which should fetch changes from a remote
> repository on a user click. I want to limit fetch on the current
> remote tracking branch (something like "origin/master"), but
> surprisingly, it's hard to get it for all corner cases like a fresh
> clone of an empty repository or detached head, etc. E.g see this SO
> thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/171550/find-out-which-remote-branch-a-local-branch-is-tracking/52896538

I think you can do this by calling

	git symbolic-ref --quiet HEAD

to get the full refname of the current branch. If HEAD is detached it 
will print nothing and exit with exit code 1. Then you can call

	git for-each-ref --format="%(upstream:short)" $refname

to get the upstream branch

Best Wishes

Phillip