From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:32:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature Request: add a --current option to git branch
Message-ID: <AANLkTikecya+o+rLVHJARv06mCtEv-Ef1nRECQH0saLr@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimDE18XK8NOg++pxqs5LCJZ4m67Ygo4JvYDbw+F@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:08 PM, John Jendro <tacliat@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes I know this can be done with sed & grep, but --current should be a
> standard thing for git branch to have.

I sense you're looking to get the name of the currently checked out
branch, possibly for use in a script. In that case, you may want "git
rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD" or "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name
HEAD" depending upon what you're trying to do.

j.