Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Are you trying to say that the result of 'rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD' > is suboptimal and that of 'symbolic-ref --short HEAD' is OK? My "Interesting" was primarily about that I wasn't aware of the "--abbrev-ref" option. Yes, I am sure some time ago I accepted a patch to add it, but I simply do not see the point, especially because the "--short" option to symbolic-ref feels much more superiour. "What branch am I on?" is about symbolic refs, rev-parse is about revisions. I can see that "symbolic-ref --short" is much newer than the other one, so addition of "--abbrev-ref" to "rev-parse" may have been a mistake made while being desperate (i.e. not having a way to do so with plumbing, we wanted "some" way to do so and chose poorly). -- 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