From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Git Feature Request - show current branch Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:21:05 +0100 Message-ID: <54E60D71.6050906@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <13b.3lxh{.41MsIT3sthY.1KvU6v@seznam.cz> <001801d04c48$732f9980$598ecc80$@nexbridge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Randall S. Becker" , mdconf@seznam.cz, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 19 17:21:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YOTqj-0005DC-6B for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:21:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752404AbbBSQVI (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:21:08 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:33070 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750856AbbBSQVH (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:21:07 -0500 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94ED120D79 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:21:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:21:06 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=x-sasl-enc:message-id:date:from :mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=r217HJ06CBxQ9xKocH13Jj ZNkcg=; b=FHZUJWhnBAH6g2EjDn6bpt6rVls1iEgYnhi/HQdH7NakeHRkgi1xeM Wyx/BC86mzIe6flhuT/c2PxcL7o9wl1Sk0x9UzVPUv4Nl20pWCRwG6WHqHfIQRgh qZZKeK+lRXato4KAVeZeZDyyQREzXjrnI5aURqwhtm+y6h/P41fXI= X-Sasl-enc: iAb+nodcYrKt5QF2o5jdLkzIqYu1uh9VewpXKbQfiJUb 1424362866 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [130.75.46.56]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 07D6E6801D3; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:21:05 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: <001801d04c48$732f9980$598ecc80$@nexbridge.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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