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From: ryenus <ryenus@gmail.com>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>, "Kevin Daudt" <me@ikke.info>,
	"Git mailing list" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Notation for current branch?
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 23:51:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKkAvaxD75sC-S7QBG6gXYbSMmBz5hpe8ZEYRRUt_BE99yvrYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xpz8UNt6bBgrJvsHdFE+MQ4J80K1ed+b41XH_CG6HYYTA@mail.gmail.com>

> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
> "git symbolic-ref" seems like the right thing if you need to obtain
> the current branch name, and there's no reason to not just use HEAD
> there.

Really? Any reason why `git rev-parse --abbrev-ref '@{-1}'` works,
but not `git symbolic-ref '@{-1}'`, or even `git symbolic-ref @`?

BTW, possible to make the curly brances optional in `@{n}`, `@{-n}`,
and the alike? coz they require quoting/escaping, and more typing :(

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-01 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-28  9:58 Notation for current branch? ryenus
2016-08-28 10:51 ` Kevin Daudt
2016-08-28 13:56   ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-29  6:39     ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-29 19:49       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-29 19:52         ` Jacob Keller
2016-09-01 15:51           ` ryenus [this message]
2016-08-30 18:09         ` ryenus
2016-08-30 18:19           ` Junio C Hamano

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