Re: [RFC PATCH] object-name: add @{upstreamhead} shorthand

From: Bence Ferdinandy <bence@ferdinandy.com>
Date: Oct 27, 2024, 22:07 UTC
Message-ID: <D56XI8GBH2GF.3MP02MGQGP5M@ferdinandy.com>
In-Reply-To: <20241025062438.GA2107756@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri Oct 25, 2024 at 08:24, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 08:48:29PM +0200, Bence Ferdinandy wrote:
>
>> > So I think rather than "branch --show-current-remote", we'd want
>> > some option to make "branch --list" show only the currently checked out
>> > branch, and then you could apply --format to it to get whatever
>> > information you wanted. Something like:
>> >
>> >   git branch --list --is-head --format='%(upstream:remotename)'
>> 
>> Thanks for running through this in such detail! This would be more widely
>> useful for sure. 
>> 
>> I'd probably call the flag something like "--current", "--current-only" rather
>> than "--is-head" though. "--is-head" sounds as if it would filter --list but
>> not necessarily end up with a single entry.
>
> Yeah, I think --current would be fine.

I was looking through git branch and there is a --show-current option. I was wondering, would it not be better to teach --show-current to also obey --format? It would avoid having a "--current" that only works with "--list" besides having a "--show-current".