From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:48:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git branch --current?
Message-ID: <76718491003170748h349c5ed0u7649864cc824f549@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf1003170743kc347d53jefe41039e3b9a69a@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
<pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use "git branch" when I need to know the current branch. But I have
> many branches, looking for the star is "time consuming". I'd rather
> have something like pwd, just print the current branch name and that's
> all. A bit more information about current branch wouldn't hurt, as
> long as the branch name is printed at a fixed location.
>
> What command do you use to know what branch you are on?

Doesn't everyone who's anyone put it in their prompt with the bash
completion script? :-)

Well, if not, how about a simple alias:

pwb = rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

?

j.