From: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:05:42 GMT
Subject: Re: get-upstream
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$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{upstream}

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Ramana Kumar <ramana.kumar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there an easy command to get a symbolic reference to the upstream
> branch of a tracking branch?
>
> For example, to get the current branch name I can do this:
>
> $ git symbolic-ref HEAD
> refs/heads/mybranchname
>
> Now I can see the upstream name as follows
>
> $ git branch -vv
> branch1 ...
> mybranchname sha [upstreamname: ahead n] ...
> branch3 ...
>
> My question is is there a way to get upstreamname directly to stdout,
> similar to the symbolic-ref command?
>
> (I don't want to have to type it manually; tab completion helps a
> little, but looking for more. Plus this would be necessary to avoid
> scraping in a script.)
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