From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 21:25:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/19] bash prompt: use bash builtins to find out current branch
Message-ID: <7vehqtqc6d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120509211143.GE6958@goldbirke>

SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:

> If the above is right, then we could check with bash builtins whether
> HEAD is a symbolic link, which is cheap, and stick to '$(git
> symbolic-ref HEAD)' if it is, or use bash builtins if it isn't, right?  

Sure.  Alternatively, you could run "readlink" on it if that is available
built-in, and manipulate the result in string builtins, but that is a b/c
slow path anyway, so I wouldn't bother.

Thanks.