> Can this command be set up as an alias ? This would require to pass a
parameter somehow ?
yes it can be an alias, but because the branch name is inserted in the
command line it need to be a shell alias passing in the branch name as $1.
On Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 11:30:49 AM UTC Philip Oakley wrote:
> > Sorry but what is {u} supposed to be? The url of the remote server?
>
> The '@{u}' is a shorthand for '@{upstream}' typed exactly, that modifies
> the given branch name to become the upstream of the given branch, and then
> rev-parse finds its pretty name, and abbrev-ref trims off the leading part
> of the "ref/./.....".
>
> Worth looking up "@" and its qualifiers ;-)
>
> On Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 7:45:33 AM UTC [email protected] wrote:
>
>> >>> "PO" == Philip Oakley <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> > git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name <branchname>@{u}
>> > Had to look it up yesterday. Then you need
>>
>> Sorry but what is {u} supposed to be? The url of the remote server?
>>
>> I tried out
>> git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name master@{git+ssh://
>> [email protected]/p/matlab-emacs/src
>> <http://[email protected]/p/matlab-emacs/src>}
>>
>> Or
>>
>> git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name master@{origin}
>>
>> None worked. I surely missed something essential.
>>
>
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