Re: get-upstream

From: Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 23, 2010, 14:28 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinm2sJbhiZ8pUNtv4KUE3tqWtsDVzKpNXUa=Dn7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100923053717.GB27540@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:16:43PM +1000, Ramana Kumar wrote:
>
>> Thanks Pat - that's awesome.
>> Is there a git shortcut for removing the refs/remotes or refs/heads
>> prefix? (I know I can just use other progs for that too)
>
> If you use the for-each-ref solution, you can use the :short modifier,
> like:
>
>  git for-each-ref --format='%(upstream:short)' `git symbolic-ref HEAD`
>
> -Peff
>

That's pretty cool. Using the >=1.7.0 syntax you can also specify an alternate branch like

$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name other-branch@{upstream}

Also, looking at TFM I discovered that @{u} is valid shorthand for @{upstream} -- sweet.

Still, I think Peff's solution looks best and covers more versions of git.