Re: Find main branch

From: pedro rijo <pedrorijo91@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 15, 2016, 10:49 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPMsMoCHYEqSoR5UKBVK7yqSK=itRXxDDV0Kp7xwoykYRpzfWg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160114211335.GB10825@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Thanks guys, the last answer seems to work !

Wouldn't mind to have a git command that returned the main branch though :p

Thanks, Pedro Rijo

2016-01-14 21:13 GMT+00:00 Jeff King <peff@peff.net>:

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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:12:35PM -0700, Bryan Turner wrote:
>
>> The same thing works for GitHub. Here's the hazelcast/hazelcast repository:
>>
>> bturner@ubuntu:~$ git remote-https
>> https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast.git
>> https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast.git | head
>> list
>> @refs/heads/master HEAD
>> 988810c4b5c5195412c65357e06cbb0e51173258 refs/heads/3.1.8
>> bddfb328e4779bccec6f7788c94960f6292b02c9 refs/heads/3.2-fix-eacg
>> 84e7d1006cd342c39afdf0ac520b5b04b8233d75 refs/heads/3.3.6
>> 2e4ffc4f593de0869f0db9f7224f964f72dac15d refs/heads/3.4-gem
>> d0a7d416b1220ef4badd98e42991dabe34c7beeb refs/heads/3.5.1
>> 6a13721d33bdb07de23f5c505b689e2ee50d5abb refs/heads/3.5.3-ercssn
>> 56676b20baae8668e731f17c9f3b9844ddd486d0 refs/heads/3.5.4
>>
>> I'm not aware of a simple equivalent for SSH. Also, note that this
>> "git remote-https" trick won't work on Windows. When you hit Enter
>> after "list" it writes a CRLF, so the "git-remote-https" process
>> compares "listCR" against its list of known commands and finds no
>> match.
>
> There's no equivalent for ssh, because you're hooking in at the
> remote-helper layer, and ssh (and git://) are builtins, and http is not.
>
> I mentioned "git remote" elsewhere in the thread, which is probably the
> least gross way (it's just ugly because it writes to a file instead of
> to stdout). But you can also snoop on the protocol:
>
>   $ GIT_TRACE_PACKET=3 git ls-remote origin 3>&1 >/dev/null |
>     perl -lne '/symref=(\S+)/ and print $1'
>   HEAD:refs/heads/master
>
> It would be nice if "git ls-remote" just had some way of printing the
> capabilities.
>
> -Peff

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Obrigado,

Pedro Rijo