Am 28.07.2015 um 17:23 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
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).
Heh. Originially, I was about to suggest
git symbolic-ref -q --short HEAD || git rev-parse --abbrev HEAD
in order to handle the detached HEAD case by printing the abbreviated
commit name, only to learn that this doesn't do what I expected. Looking
at the man page of rev-parse, I discovered --abbrev-ref. And learned
that I actually should have used --short instead of --abbrev in the
above rev-parse command.
Confusing...
-- Hannes
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