Re: Why git branch --show-current ignores -v?

From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 26, 2025, 15:43 UTC
Message-ID: <871pkh8d0l.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8qeqm1tp.fsf@gitster.g>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It looks useful and natural for "git branch --show-current -v[v]" to
>> verbosely describe current branch, similar to what --list does. Is there
>> sound reason why -v is not supported by --show-current?
>

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> I do not think anybody terribly objects if somebody teaches "-v" to
> make "git branch --show-current" more verbose, and other "--list"
> operations in general, but I suspect that the exact contents in the
> verbose output may have to be different from that of "--list".  For
> one thing, as "--show-current" limits its output to the current
> branch, the two-place indent "git branch --list" gives its output is
> not there, and "-v" would probably not want to add it.

Yep, I didn't mean to suggest exactly the same format and contents, though just reproducing the --list won't hurt either.

The actual use-case was to quickly figure the upstream branch and relative status of the current one, and

    git br --show-current -vv

just looked more natural for the job at hand than something like

    git br -lvv master

that besides is not exactly the same, and then the following one is kinda overkill for manual use)))

    git br -lvv `git br --show-current`

That suddenly gets me to why Git has no synonym for the current branch in the first place? No @HEAD or @@?

   git br -lvv @@

is pretty-looking perl'y that unfortunately doesn't work.

Thanks, Sergey Organov