Re: Find main branch

From: pedro rijo <pedrorijo91@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 14, 2016, 18:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPMsMoBNzmK618NPP-VXP_70hTxTsa13O9f_usiCPJ-SUOUz_g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160114213113.c700484c7e3acddc467d0e75@domain007.com>

Stefan Beller solution is based on the server, which may not be very easy to do when dealing with Github/Bitbucket/Gitlab and other God knows which provider.

Konstantin ls-remote solution is the one I'm already using, but if I have several branches on that commit, I will not be able to decide.

I thought that the 'main' branch information was stored in git, and possibly with some way to access it with a git command

Thanks, Pedro Rijo

2016-01-14 18:31 GMT+00:00 Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>:

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> On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:17:48 +0000
> pedro rijo <pedrorijo91@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If I clone a repo, the repo will be on a specific branch, the 'main'
>> (typically 'master') branch.
>
> `git clone` checks out the branch which is pointed by by the HEAD ref in
> the source repository.
>
>> Is there any direct command to find that main branch, since that
>> information is present?
>>
>> If so, is there any way to find it without actually cloning the repo
>> (similar to git ls-remote)?
>
> Run `git ls-remote <url>` and, record the SHA1 name of the HEAD ref,
> then look that name up in the list of the remaining refs.

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Obrigado,

Pedro Rijo