Re: [PATCH v4] branch: introduce --show-current display option

From: Daniels Umanovskis <daniels@umanovskis.se>
Date: Oct 17, 2018, 17:36 UTC
Message-ID: <fab5a98e-dcf2-5a95-3191-35a2d10227cb@umanovskis.se>
In-Reply-To: <20181017093655.GA11811@rigel>

On 10/17/18 11:39 AM, Rafael Ascensão wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 03:33:21PM +0200, Daniels Umanovskis wrote:
>> Intended both for scripting and interactive/informative use.
>> Unlike git branch --list, no filtering is needed to just get the
>> branch name.
> 
> Are we going forward with advertising this as a scriptable alternative?

That's probably up to the maintainers, but I would not explicitly point it out as a script command, so my patch doesn't mention scripting use in the documentation for it. In reality it's useful for "soft scripting" like setting the shell $PS1, which doesn't require API stability guarantees the way proper scripts do.