SZEDER Gábor <szeder@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > If the above is right, then we could check with bash builtins whether > HEAD is a symbolic link, which is cheap, and stick to '$(git > symbolic-ref HEAD)' if it is, or use bash builtins if it isn't, right? Sure. Alternatively, you could run "readlink" on it if that is available built-in, and manipulate the result in string builtins, but that is a b/c slow path anyway, so I wouldn't bother. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html