Re: Git Feature Request - show current branch

2015-02-20 Thread Michael J Gruber
Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 19.02.2015 19:10: Michael J Gruber g...@drmicha.warpmail.net writes: Randall S. Becker venit, vidit, dixit 19.02.2015 14:32: git symbolic-ref --short HEAD That errors out when HEAD is detached. Isn't that what you would want to happen anyway?

RE: Git Feature Request - show current branch

2015-02-19 Thread Randall S. Becker
Hi Martin, I use: git symbolic-ref --short HEAD in scripts. Not sure it's the best way, but it works 100% for me. Regards, Randall -Original Message- From: git-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:git-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of mdc...@seznam.cz Sent: February 19, 2015 8:15 AM To:

Re: Git Feature Request - show current branch

2015-02-19 Thread Junio C Hamano
Michael J Gruber g...@drmicha.warpmail.net writes: Randall S. Becker venit, vidit, dixit 19.02.2015 14:32: git symbolic-ref --short HEAD That errors out when HEAD is detached. Isn't that what you would want to happen anyway? if current=$(that command) then

Re: Git Feature Request - show current branch

2015-02-19 Thread Michael J Gruber
Randall S. Becker venit, vidit, dixit 19.02.2015 14:32: git symbolic-ref --short HEAD That errors out when HEAD is detached. git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name [--abbrev-ref] HEAD returns the branch name or HEAD. Though it's a bit difficult to discover. I guess git 3.0 will have git branch