Re: Notation for current branch?

From: ryenus <ryenus@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2016, 18:09 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKkAvaxyEMjASzfGTqt73AtW7ag-YfqN1yVLEhFreiU-UVdnkA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqy43f9wzh.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 30 August 2016 at 03:49, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> 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
>
> Wait.  Even if a hypothetical version of Git understood @@ as "the
> current branch", how would you use that notation, instead of HEAD,
> to decide what to "display the current branch to the user"?
>
> You obviously will not be doing
>
>         echo @@
>
> You would be doing something around "git symbolic-ref" at the very
> least, and wouldn't you be feeding HEAD to that symbolic-ref anyway
> while doing so?
>

For now the best use case I can think of is with git-reflog, e.g., the meaning of `git reflog HEAD` and `git reflog feature-branch` are quite different, even if I'm currently on the feature-branch, especially when I want to track the rebase histories (if any).

If there's a notation for the current branch then I don't have to find the name of the current branch, then copy/paste it. However, in this case, maybe git-reflog can have a `-b` option to show the reflog of the current branch (if on any)?

- ryenus