From: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@007spb.ru>
To: pedro rijo <pedrorijo91@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Find main branch
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 21:53:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160114215312.255f26416bb93beb2e18f1f2@domain007.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPMsMoBNzmK618NPP-VXP_70hTxTsa13O9f_usiCPJ-SUOUz_g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:40:15 +0000
pedro rijo <pedrorijo91@gmail.com> wrote:
> Stefan Beller solution is based on the server, which may not be very
> easy to do when dealing with Github/Bitbucket/Gitlab and other God
> knows which provider.
>
> Konstantin ls-remote solution is the one I'm already using, but if I
> have several branches on that commit, I will not be able to decide.
>
> I thought that the 'main' branch information was stored in git, and
> possibly with some way to access it with a git command
It *is* stored in the Git repository -- in the HEAD ref.
The question of how to retreive precisely this bit of information --
I don't really know. Basically you want `git show-remote-ref --head`
but Git does not have such a command, only `git show-ref` ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-14 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-14 18:17 Find main branch pedro rijo
2016-01-14 18:26 ` Stefan Beller
2016-01-14 18:31 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2016-01-14 18:40 ` pedro rijo
2016-01-14 18:53 ` Konstantin Khomoutov [this message]
2016-01-14 19:12 ` Bryan Turner
2016-01-14 21:13 ` Jeff King
2016-01-15 10:49 ` pedro rijo
2016-01-15 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-15 18:02 ` Jeff King
2016-01-14 21:04 ` Jeff King
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