Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> In one of my scripts I do something like this (actually this is not
> straight from my script, as the operation there is "find all pairs of
> local/remote branches" and this is "find the current upstream"):
>
> ref=`git symbolic-ref HEAD`
> head=${ref#refs/heads/}
> remote=`git config branch.$head.remote`
> branch=`git config branch.$head.merge`
> echo refs/remote/$remote/${branch#refs/heads/}
>
> And obviously this is missing error checking for the detached HEAD
> (symbolic-ref should fail) and no tracking branch ($remote and/or $branch
> will be empty) cases.
Yeah, add any nonstandard layout to that set of things that are missing,
but in practice it should not matter.
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