2009/1/4 Karl Chen <quarl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>> On 2009-01-04 00:21 PST, Arnaud Lacombe writes:
>
> Arnaud> FWIW, I had this in a stalled modification in a tree,
> Arnaud> it just add the '-c' (as "current") option to git
> Arnaud> branch. Patch is mostly for the record :/
>
> Thanks, glad someone else wanted this too. If we modified
> git-symbolic-ref it would probably be less code since it doesn't
> have to loop over all branches, though from a UI perspective I
> still prefer git-branch. Anyway doesn't look like people like the
> idea so how about that git-rev-parse --symbolic-abbrev-name idea
> :)
FWIW: I like the idea. Ive always thought that a --current flag to git
branch was missing. IOW i should be able to do:
branch=`git branch --current`
and get back a usable branch name. I dont think one should need to
rely on awk or sed or scripts to find this out, if only for
portability reasons.
>
> Arnaud> The main trouble I have with pipe stuff is that it
> Arnaud> forks a process for something that can be done
> Arnaud> natively. Previously, I was using awk(1) to extract
> Arnaud> the current branch:
>
> Arnaud> $ git branch | awk '/^\*/ {print $2}'
>
> Yet another addition to the list of ways to pipeline it, this one
> probably the shortest :)
Unfortunately it doesnt work well when you arent on a branch:
$ git branch | awk '/^\*/ {print $2}'
(no
So far two apparently expert git people have given solutions to this
problem that don't elegantly handle the edge cases.
That seems to me to be a powerful argument that it is actually more
difficult to do than is being represented here on the list, and
deserves to be native level git functionality.
Cheers,
yves
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