From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:53:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] revisions: add @{default} shorthand for default branch
Message-ID: <6e2e8e79-7fe9-4b3c-9257-bedba0be3308@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20260202211919.4968-1-haraldnordgren@gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 2, 2026, at 22:19, Harald Nordgren wrote:
>> If you don't need to be on a branch, then "git switch -d origin" (or
>> upstream, or whatever your remote is) should work just fine.
>
> Thanks, but it needs to be a branch, do you use detached heads for
> anything? 🤗 For me, the only ever happen by accident.

The remote-tracking branch itself is enough for me to do things like:

> > Also, I switch to it when I discover a bug on my branch, to try to
> > understand if the bug is already on main or not. It's the baseline all work
> > is compared against.

And to compare against with git-diff(1), use in a range to git-log(1),
and use in `git branch --set-upstream-to=origin`.