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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
To: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>, ryenus <ryenus@gmail.com>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Notation for current branch?
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:39:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xrGh687cYHJmYyXiWfjg_8i2-31FZOvk4bEMsO1FU22WA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4114ccbc-6b23-b7fe-ce4a-fcd0c9e4038a@gmail.com>

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> W dniu 28.08.2016 o 12:51, Kevin Daudt pisze:
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 05:58:18PM +0800, ryenus wrote:
>
>>> I wonder if there's an easy to use notation to refer to the current branch?
>>> which is expected be friendly to scripting.
>>>
>>> For HEAD, there's @, which is short and concise.
>
> What's wrong with simply using 'HEAD' for scripting?
>

When you want to display the current branch to the user, e.g. when
scripting a shell prompt or similar use

Thanks,
Jake

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29  6:39 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 [this message]
2016-08-29 19:49       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-29 19:52         ` Jacob Keller
2016-09-01 15:51           ` ryenus
2016-08-30 18:09         ` ryenus
2016-08-30 18:19           ` Junio C Hamano

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