Re: git-rev-parse --symbolic-abbrev-name [was Re: git-branch --print-current]

[demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>]

2009/1/4 Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu>:
>>>>>> On 2009-01-03 21:17 PST, Junio C Hamano writes:
>
>    Junio> That is a good point about user education, and is a
>    Junio> demonstration why a new option to cover a very
>    Junio> narrow-special case to symbolic-ref will not help the
>    Junio> situation.  People will add their own embellishments
>    Junio> around the name of the branch anyway, and the most
>    Junio> generic symbolic-ref output is just as useful as a
>    Junio> special case option to show without refs/heads/.
>
> That's arguable :) you really think "branchfoo" instead of
> "refs/heads/branchfoo" is a narrow special case?  Seems like a
> common case for everyone except plumbing tools.

I agree. All the scripting I've done involves using the non qualified form.

> Here's a more general idea you might like better:
>
>    git symbolic-ref --abbrev BLAH
> or even
>    git rev-parse --symbolic-abbrev-name BLAH
>
> This would be like git-rev-parse --symbolic-full-name, but strips
> the "refs/x/" iff the result is unambiguous.  Since it's much more
> work for a script to check whether the stripped version is
> ambiguous, this functionality is appropriate as a builtin option.

I vote for this, I could and would use it many scripts. Also please
dont make it die if BLAH is not a symbolic ref if this option is used.
Just return nothing.

cheers,
Yves


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