From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:43:02 GMT
Subject: Re: get upstream branch
Message-ID: <7v8wqp6e89.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081209055629.GB2972@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> In one of my scripts I do something like this (actually this is not
> straight from my script, as the operation there is "find all pairs of
> local/remote branches" and this is "find the current upstream"):
>
>   ref=`git symbolic-ref HEAD`
>   head=${ref#refs/heads/}
>   remote=`git config branch.$head.remote`
>   branch=`git config branch.$head.merge`
>   echo refs/remote/$remote/${branch#refs/heads/}
>
> And obviously this is missing error checking for the detached HEAD
> (symbolic-ref should fail) and no tracking branch ($remote and/or $branch
> will be empty) cases.

Yeah, add any nonstandard layout to that set of things that are missing,
but in practice it should not matter.