* get-upstream
@ 2010-09-23 3:46 Ramana Kumar
2010-09-23 4:05 ` get-upstream Pat Notz
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Ramana Kumar @ 2010-09-23 3:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Is there an easy command to get a symbolic reference to the upstream
branch of a tracking branch?
For example, to get the current branch name I can do this:
$ git symbolic-ref HEAD
refs/heads/mybranchname
Now I can see the upstream name as follows
$ git branch -vv
branch1 ...
mybranchname sha [upstreamname: ahead n] ...
branch3 ...
My question is is there a way to get upstreamname directly to stdout,
similar to the symbolic-ref command?
(I don't want to have to type it manually; tab completion helps a
little, but looking for more. Plus this would be necessary to avoid
scraping in a script.)
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* Re: get-upstream
2010-09-23 3:46 get-upstream Ramana Kumar
@ 2010-09-23 4:05 ` Pat Notz
2010-09-23 4:15 ` get-upstream Pat Notz
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Pat Notz @ 2010-09-23 4:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ramana Kumar; +Cc: git
$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{upstream}
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Ramana Kumar <ramana.kumar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there an easy command to get a symbolic reference to the upstream
> branch of a tracking branch?
>
> For example, to get the current branch name I can do this:
>
> $ git symbolic-ref HEAD
> refs/heads/mybranchname
>
> Now I can see the upstream name as follows
>
> $ git branch -vv
> branch1 ...
> mybranchname sha [upstreamname: ahead n] ...
> branch3 ...
>
> My question is is there a way to get upstreamname directly to stdout,
> similar to the symbolic-ref command?
>
> (I don't want to have to type it manually; tab completion helps a
> little, but looking for more. Plus this would be necessary to avoid
> scraping in a script.)
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2010-09-23 4:05 ` get-upstream Pat Notz
@ 2010-09-23 4:15 ` Pat Notz
2010-09-23 4:16 ` get-upstream Ramana Kumar
2010-09-23 5:36 ` get-upstream Jeff King
0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Pat Notz @ 2010-09-23 4:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ramana Kumar; +Cc: git
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com> wrote:
> $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{upstream}
In all fairness, the @{upstream} syntax requires git >= 1.7.0
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt
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2010-09-23 4:15 ` get-upstream Pat Notz
@ 2010-09-23 4:16 ` Ramana Kumar
2010-09-23 5:37 ` get-upstream Jeff King
2010-09-23 5:36 ` get-upstream Jeff King
1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Ramana Kumar @ 2010-09-23 4:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pat Notz; +Cc: git
Thanks Pat - that's awesome.
Is there a git shortcut for removing the refs/remotes or refs/heads
prefix? (I know I can just use other progs for that too)
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{upstream}
>
> In all fairness, the @{upstream} syntax requires git >= 1.7.0
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.0.txt
>
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2010-09-23 4:16 ` get-upstream Ramana Kumar
@ 2010-09-23 5:37 ` Jeff King
2010-09-23 14:28 ` get-upstream Pat Notz
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jeff King @ 2010-09-23 5:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ramana Kumar; +Cc: Pat Notz, git
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:16:43PM +1000, Ramana Kumar wrote:
> Thanks Pat - that's awesome.
> Is there a git shortcut for removing the refs/remotes or refs/heads
> prefix? (I know I can just use other progs for that too)
If you use the for-each-ref solution, you can use the :short modifier,
like:
git for-each-ref --format='%(upstream:short)' `git symbolic-ref HEAD`
-Peff
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* Re: get-upstream
2010-09-23 5:37 ` get-upstream Jeff King
@ 2010-09-23 14:28 ` Pat Notz
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Pat Notz @ 2010-09-23 14:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff King; +Cc: Ramana Kumar, git
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:16:43PM +1000, Ramana Kumar wrote:
>
>> Thanks Pat - that's awesome.
>> Is there a git shortcut for removing the refs/remotes or refs/heads
>> prefix? (I know I can just use other progs for that too)
>
> If you use the for-each-ref solution, you can use the :short modifier,
> like:
>
> git for-each-ref --format='%(upstream:short)' `git symbolic-ref HEAD`
>
> -Peff
>
That's pretty cool. Using the >=1.7.0 syntax you can also specify an
alternate branch like
$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name other-branch@{upstream}
Also, looking at TFM I discovered that @{u} is valid shorthand for
@{upstream} -- sweet.
Still, I think Peff's solution looks best and covers more versions of git.
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* Re: get-upstream
2010-09-23 4:15 ` get-upstream Pat Notz
2010-09-23 4:16 ` get-upstream Ramana Kumar
@ 2010-09-23 5:36 ` Jeff King
1 sibling, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Jeff King @ 2010-09-23 5:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pat Notz; +Cc: Ramana Kumar, git
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:15:00PM -0600, Pat Notz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Pat Notz <patnotz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{upstream}
>
> In all fairness, the @{upstream} syntax requires git >= 1.7.0
You can also use:
git for-each-ref --format='%(upstream)' `git symbolic-ref HEAD`
which has worked since v1.6.3. It also has the advantage that you can
ask for the upstream of something besides the HEAD.
-Peff
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