From: Karl Chen Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:18:36 GMT Subject: Re: git-branch --print-current Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <402731c90901012026j470f35ffj1eaa189a837054f3@mail.gmail.com> >>>>> On 2009-01-01 20:26 PST, David Aguilar writes: David> You might want to use 'git symbolic-ref' instead. David> $ git symbolic-ref HEAD | sed -e 's,refs/heads/,,' David> master Thanks, that is better. How about an option to git-symbolic-ref that gets rid of the refs/heads/ ?