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Re: git branch command is incompatible with bash

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 28, 2015, 15:23 UTC
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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
> Are you trying to say that the result of 'rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD'
> is suboptimal and that of 'symbolic-ref --short HEAD' is OK?

My "Interesting" was primarily about that I wasn't aware of the "--abbrev-ref" option.

Yes, I am sure some time ago I accepted a patch to add it, but I simply do not see the point, especially because the "--short" option to symbolic-ref feels much more superiour. "What branch am I on?" is about symbolic refs, rev-parse is about revisions.

I can see that "symbolic-ref --short" is much newer than the other one, so addition of "--abbrev-ref" to "rev-parse" may have been a mistake made while being desperate (i.e. not having a way to do so with plumbing, we wanted "some" way to do so and chose poorly).

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  1. Anatol RudolphJul 27, 2015
  2. Johannes SixtJul 27, 2015
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 27, 2015
  4. Johannes SixtJul 28, 2015
  5. Jakub NarębskiJul 28, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2015
  7. Jeff KingJul 28, 2015
  8. Johannes SixtJul 28, 2015
  9. Scott SchmitJul 29, 2015

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