From: Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:40:51 GMT
Subject: Re: git-branch --print-current
Message-ID: <quack.20090104T0440.lthbpun1bxo@roar.cs.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1a69a9d80901040021i1dae2c6j7337cf57eed6476a@mail.gmail.com>

>>>>> On 2009-01-04 00:21 PST, Arnaud Lacombe writes:

    Arnaud> FWIW, I had this in a stalled modification in a tree,
    Arnaud> it just add the '-c' (as "current") option to git
    Arnaud> branch. Patch is mostly for the record :/

Thanks, glad someone else wanted this too.  If we modified
git-symbolic-ref it would probably be less code since it doesn't
have to loop over all branches, though from a UI perspective I
still prefer git-branch.  Anyway doesn't look like people like the
idea so how about that git-rev-parse --symbolic-abbrev-name idea
:)

    Arnaud> The main trouble I have with pipe stuff is that it
    Arnaud> forks a process for something that can be done
    Arnaud> natively. Previously, I was using awk(1) to extract
    Arnaud> the current branch:

    Arnaud> $ git branch | awk '/^\*/ {print $2}'

Yet another addition to the list of ways to pipeline it, this one
probably the shortest :)

[BTW, your patch mime type was application/octet-stream :(]