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From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
To: phillip.wood123@gmail.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitgitgadget@gmail.com, gitster@pobox.com,
	haraldnordgren@gmail.com, phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] revisions: add @{default} shorthand for default branch
Date: Mon,  2 Feb 2026 11:14:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260202101445.13790-1-haraldnordgren@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d92bd08f-abee-49a6-89ad-3be5e0c06ad6@gmail.com>

> I don't really understand what you're trying to achieve and I'm not sure 
> if the suggestion above is a good idea but it might help understand what 
> it is you're trying to do.
I didn't realize I was so bad at explaining 😅

What I want is a shorthand for switching to the local version of the
default branch of the repo. This but with less voodoo:

    git switch $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref $(git remote | rg '^(origin|upstream)$' | tail -n1) | sed 's@.*/@@')


> you say you don't work directly on the main branch but then later on
> you're then creating a release from it. Is  "main" just a mirror of
> "origin/main" or are you merging local work into it as well?

My main is a mirror of upstream/main. I never commit to it, just do
'git pull' to create releases.

Also, I switch to it when I discover a bug on my branch, to try to
understand if the bug is already on main or not. It's the baseline all work
is compared against.

>>      99designs/gqlgen
>>      refs/remotes/upstream/master
>> 
>>      amplitude/experiment-react-native-client
>>      refs/remotes/upstream/main
>> 
>>      Antonboom/testifylint
>>      refs/remotes/upstream/master
>> 
>>      cli/cli
>>      refs/remotes/upstream/trunk

I want a shorthand so that when in any of these repos, I'm switching to the
default branch, I simply have to run

    git switch @{primary}

and I would end up with

      99designs/gqlgen
      Switched to branch 'master'
 
      amplitude/experiment-react-native-client
      Switched to branch 'main'
 
      Antonboom/testifylint
      Switched to branch 'main'
 
      cli/cli
      Switched to branch 'trunk'


Harald

  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-02 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-29 15:25 [PATCH] revisions: add @{default} shorthand for default branch Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-01-29 20:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-30 10:59   ` Harald Nordgren
2026-01-30 11:12     ` Harald Nordgren
2026-01-30 16:42     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-30 20:58       ` Harald Nordgren
2026-01-30 21:56         ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-31  0:09           ` Harald Nordgren
2026-01-31 19:16       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-31 20:22         ` Harald Nordgren
2026-01-31 20:55           ` Harald Nordgren
2026-02-02 12:32             ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-02 15:30               ` Harald Nordgren
2026-02-02  9:37           ` Phillip Wood
2026-02-02 10:14             ` Harald Nordgren [this message]
2026-02-02 19:40               ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-02-02 21:19                 ` Harald Nordgren
2026-02-02 21:53                   ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-02-02 22:17                   ` Ben Knoble
2026-02-02 22:54                     ` Harald Nordgren
2026-02-02 21:33                 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-02 22:16                   ` Ben Knoble
2026-02-02 23:03                 ` Harald Nordgren
2026-02-02 21:44               ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-02 22:56                 ` Harald Nordgren
2026-02-03 11:18                   ` Harald Nordgren
2026-02-03 14:38               ` Phillip Wood
2026-02-02 22:28             ` Junio C Hamano
2026-01-30 13:26 ` [PATCH v2] " Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-01-30 16:54   ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-01-30 20:45   ` [PATCH v3] revisions: add @{primary} shorthand for primary branch Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget
2026-01-31  0:06     ` [PATCH v4] " Harald Nordgren via GitGitGadget

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