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From: Ramana Kumar <ramana.kumar@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: get-upstream
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:46:06 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikqJmsUo53dRngXcWsoEfcFzLQ-J1V5oZOGUL03@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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.)

             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-23  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-23  3:46 Ramana Kumar [this message]
2010-09-23  4:05 ` get-upstream Pat Notz
2010-09-23  4:15   ` get-upstream Pat Notz
2010-09-23  4:16     ` get-upstream Ramana Kumar
2010-09-23  5:37       ` get-upstream Jeff King
2010-09-23 14:28         ` get-upstream Pat Notz
2010-09-23  5:36     ` get-upstream Jeff King

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