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From: "David Aguilar" <davvid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-branch --print-current
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 20:26:29 -0800
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On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> How about an option to git-branch that just prints the name of
> the current branch for scripts' sake?  To replace:
>
>    git branch --no-color 2>/dev/null | perl -ne '/^[*] (.*)/ && print $1'


The justification I've heard before is that 'git branch' is a
porcelain and thus we shouldn't rely on its output for scripting
purposes.

You might want to use 'git symbolic-ref' instead.

$ git symbolic-ref HEAD
refs/heads/master

$ git symbolic-ref HEAD | sed -e 's,refs/heads/,,'
master


-- 
    David