Re: [PATCH] builtin: add git-default-branch command

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2021, 17:22 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqy2656tni.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2111021433010.56@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> But we do have prior art in Git how to display similar information: `git
> var -l` will list e.g. `GIT_PAGER`, even if it is not configured
> explicitly.

Nice.  I was hoping that somebody would remember this one.

GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT and such that do not even exist as a variable is part of "git var -l"; the name for the default initial branch falls into the same category.

Thanks.