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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>,
	mdconf@seznam.cz, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git Feature Request - show current branch
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:21:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54E60D71.6050906@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001801d04c48$732f9980$598ecc80$@nexbridge.com>

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" and "git branches" :)

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-19 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-19 13:14 Git Feature Request - show current branch mdconf
2015-02-19 13:32 ` Randall S. Becker
2015-02-19 16:21   ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2015-02-19 18:10     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-20 10:16       ` Michael J Gruber

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