From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 06:39:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Notation for current branch?
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xrGh687cYHJmYyXiWfjg_8i2-31FZOvk4bEMsO1FU22WA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4114ccbc-6b23-b7fe-ce4a-fcd0c9e4038a@gmail.com>

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> W dniu 28.08.2016 o 12:51, Kevin Daudt pisze:
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 05:58:18PM +0800, ryenus wrote:
>
>>> I wonder if there's an easy to use notation to refer to the current branch?
>>> which is expected be friendly to scripting.
>>>
>>> For HEAD, there's @, which is short and concise.
>
> What's wrong with simply using 'HEAD' for scripting?
>

When you want to display the current branch to the user, e.g. when
scripting a shell prompt or similar use

Thanks,
Jake