From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:31:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Introduce git submodule add|update --attach
Message-ID: <xmqqd2jv7pr1.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALas-igDaweib14zaLJk3m1zmBWk=14oA7h_e7G82vpxmBjiOg@mail.gmail.com>

Francesco Pretto <ceztko@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks for the comments, my replies below. Before, a couple of general
> questions:
> - I'm also writing some tests, should I commit them together with the
> feature patch?
> - to determine the attached/detached state I did this:
>
> head_detached=
> if test "$(rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)" = "HEAD"
> then
>     head_detached="true"
> fi

Use "git symbolic-ref HEAD" to read off of it.