From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:35:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git checkout -b: unparent the new branch with -o
Message-ID: <874oixe720.fsf@krank.kagedal.org>
In-Reply-To: <36ca99e91003112340u6256ef4dwb40e308c9a5e3a46@mail.gmail.com>

Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:53, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com> writes:
>>> +     test "alpha" = "$(git branch | sed -n "/*/s/\* //p")" &&
>>
>> Don't read from "git branch" in scripts; use symbolic-ref on HEAD.
>
> I think what he wants is:
>
>         git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

Aha! That's a command I've been looking for a number of times. Thanks a
lot for the tip.

-- 
David Kågedal