On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Karl Chen <quarl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How about an option to git-branch that just prints the name of the > current branch for scripts' sake? To replace: > > git branch --no-color 2>/dev/null | perl -ne '/^[*] (.*)/ && print $1' I tend to support your request especially that extracting the current branch is something that is done regularly. Looking in my own scripts/aliases and some of my colleagues, there are plenty of variation using Perl, sed, awk, tr and Python to extract the current branch. Using git-symbolic-ref is not obvious, especially that the summary/name of the man page is : "git-symbolic-ref - Read and modify symbolic refs" But the description is pretty clear : "Given one argument, reads which branch head the given symbolic ref refers to and outputs its path, relative to the .git/ directory. Typically you would give HEAD as the <name> argument to see on which branch your working tree is on." But naturally, as a lazy user, you will pick git-branch especially that's the tools is listed with the most commonly used git commands with a very attractive description : "branch List, create, or delete branches" On an user perspective, having the option in git-branch seems more natural. Just a comment, -- -- Alexandre Dulaunoy (adulau) -- http://www.foo.be/ -- http://www.foo.be/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/Diary -- "Knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance -- that we can solve them" Isaac Asimov -- 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
