# get-upstream 7 messages from 2010-09-23 to 2010-09-23. Participants: Ramana Kumar, Pat Notz, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25203 ## Ramana Kumar, 2010-09-23 03:46 Subject: get-upstream Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTikqJmsUo53dRngXcWsoEfcFzLQ-J1V5oZOGUL03%40mail.gmail.com ``` Is there an easy command to get a symbolic reference to the upstream branch of a tracking branch? For example, to get the current branch name I can do this: $ git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/mybranchname Now I can see the upstream name as follows $ git branch -vv branch1 ... mybranchname sha [upstreamname: ahead n] ... branch3 ... My question is is there a way to get upstreamname directly to stdout, similar to the symbolic-ref command? (I don't want to have to type it manually; tab completion helps a little, but looking for more. Plus this would be necessary to avoid scraping in a script.) ``` ## Pat Notz, 2010-09-23 04:05 Subject: Re: get-upstream Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTikQ8sHrp%2BsSZ8e8u7L%2B6%3DNHVY3cD9DwChAzLEk0%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{upstream} On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Ramana Kumar wrote: > Is there an easy command to get a symbolic reference to the upstream > branch of a tracking branch? > > For example, to get the current branch name I can do this: > > $ git symbolic-ref HEAD > refs/heads/mybranchname > > Now I can see the upstream name as follows > > $ git branch -vv > branch1 ... > mybranchname sha [upstreamname: ahead n] ... > branch3 ... > > My question is is there a way to get upstreamname directly to stdout, > similar to the symbolic-ref command? > > (I don't want to have to type it manually; tab completion helps a > little, but looking for more. Plus this would be necessary to avoid > scraping in a script.) > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > ``` ## Pat Notz, 2010-09-23 04:15 Subject: Re: get-upstream Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTikYnj_00Pdsm%2BQM1%3DkvqMpeKDCeOOqOS0XEwMXg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Pat Notz wrote: > $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{upstream} In all fairness, the @{upstream} syntax requires git >= 1.7.0 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt ``` ## Ramana Kumar, 2010-09-23 04:16 Subject: Re: get-upstream Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTi%3DQnP0CUCU%3D6fR50UzphnVMVvmfe9mkqpf1NHLt%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` Thanks Pat - that's awesome. Is there a git shortcut for removing the refs/remotes or refs/heads prefix? (I know I can just use other progs for that too) On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Pat Notz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Pat Notz wrote: >> $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{upstream} > > In all fairness, the @{upstream} syntax requires git >= 1.7.0 > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt > ``` ## Jeff King, 2010-09-23 05:36 Subject: Re: get-upstream Message-ID: <20100923053600.GA27540@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100923053600.GA27540%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:15:00PM -0600, Pat Notz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Pat Notz wrote: > > $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{upstream} > > In all fairness, the @{upstream} syntax requires git >= 1.7.0 You can also use: git for-each-ref --format='%(upstream)' `git symbolic-ref HEAD` which has worked since v1.6.3. It also has the advantage that you can ask for the upstream of something besides the HEAD. -Peff ``` ## Jeff King, 2010-09-23 05:37 Subject: Re: get-upstream Message-ID: <20100923053717.GB27540@sigill.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100923053717.GB27540%40sigill.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:16:43PM +1000, Ramana Kumar wrote: > Thanks Pat - that's awesome. > Is there a git shortcut for removing the refs/remotes or refs/heads > prefix? (I know I can just use other progs for that too) If you use the for-each-ref solution, you can use the :short modifier, like: git for-each-ref --format='%(upstream:short)' `git symbolic-ref HEAD` -Peff ``` ## Pat Notz, 2010-09-23 14:28 Subject: Re: get-upstream Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTinm2sJbhiZ8pUNtv4KUE3tqWtsDVzKpNXUa%3DDn7%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20100923053717.GB27540@sigill.intra.peff.net> ``` On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:16:43PM +1000, Ramana Kumar wrote: > >> Thanks Pat - that's awesome. >> Is there a git shortcut for removing the refs/remotes or refs/heads >> prefix? (I know I can just use other progs for that too) > > If you use the for-each-ref solution, you can use the :short modifier, > like: > >  git for-each-ref --format='%(upstream:short)' `git symbolic-ref HEAD` > > -Peff > That's pretty cool. Using the >=1.7.0 syntax you can also specify an alternate branch like $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name other-branch@{upstream} Also, looking at TFM I discovered that @{u} is valid shorthand for @{upstream} -- sweet. Still, I think Peff's solution looks best and covers more versions of git. ```