On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 08:23:40AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. Sometimes my question is "what branch am I on?" -- in which case symbolic-ref is adequate. Other times, my question is "where am I/what did I check out?" which is usually a branch, sometimes a tag, and sometimes a commit hash. We don't have a one-stop-shop command to answer that question in all cases, which is unfortunate. git status answers, but that's not plumbing. git-prompt manages to do a fairly good job, but the logic is by no means straightforward. -- Scott Schmit -- 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