Re: git-branch --print-current

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:49 AM, demerphq [off-list ref] wrote:

2009/1/4 Karl Chen [off-list ref]:

quoted

On 2009-01-04 00:21 PST, Arnaud Lacombe writes:
   Arnaud> $ git branch | awk '/^\*/ {print $2}'

Yet another addition to the list of ways to pipeline it, this one
probably the shortest :)

Unfortunately it doesnt work well when you arent on a branch:

 $ git branch | awk '/^\*/ {print $2}'
 (no

So far two apparently expert git people have given solutions to this
problem that don't elegantly handle the edge cases.

my bad:
$ git branch | awk '/^\*/ {print substr($0, 3)}'

 - Arnaud