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Re: Notation for current branch?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 29, 2016, 19:49 UTC
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Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>> What's wrong with simply using 'HEAD' for scripting?
>
> When you want to display the current branch to the user, e.g. when
> scripting a shell prompt or similar use

Wait. Even if a hypothetical version of Git understood @@ as "the current branch", how would you use that notation, instead of HEAD, to decide what to "display the current branch to the user"?

You obviously will not be doing
	echo @@

You would be doing something around "git symbolic-ref" at the very least, and wouldn't you be feeding HEAD to that symbolic-ref anyway while doing so?

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