Hello again,
yah, sorry, i'm back again..
I try to find a way to find the name of the current branch in an
automated way, because i need to ensure that a commit happens on
it and no other branch. Now the problem arises that the commit
ref at the time of that commit maybe shared in between several
different branches, but no more thereafter, of course:
?0[steffen@wales ]$ git branch|grep '^*'
* stable/v14.9
?0[steffen@wales ]$ git name-rev --name-only HEAD
stable/v14.8
Is there another way except looking into .git/HEAD or using sed(1)
on the output of `branch' to find the right name?
Thank you.
Ciao!
--steffen
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso [off-list ref] wrote:
Hello again,
yah, sorry, i'm back again..
I try to find a way to find the name of the current branch in an
automated way, because i need to ensure that a commit happens on
it and no other branch. Now the problem arises that the commit
ref at the time of that commit maybe shared in between several
different branches, but no more thereafter, of course:
?0[steffen@wales ]$ git branch|grep '^*'
* stable/v14.9
?0[steffen@wales ]$ git name-rev --name-only HEAD
stable/v14.8
Is there another way except looking into .git/HEAD or using sed(1)
on the output of `branch' to find the right name?
Have you tried "git symbolic-ref HEAD"?
$ git symbolic-ref HEAD
refs/heads/master
If you don't want the fully-qualified ref, you can add --short:
$ git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
master
Hey.
Bryan Turner [off-list ref] wrote:
|On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso [off-list ref] \
|wrote:
|> yah, sorry, i'm back again..
|> I try to find a way to find the name of the current branch in an
|> automated way, because i need to ensure that a commit happens on
|> it and no other branch. Now the problem arises that the commit
|> ref at the time of that commit maybe shared in between several
|> different branches, but no more thereafter, of course:
|>
|> ?0[steffen@wales ]$ git branch|grep '^*'
|> * stable/v14.9
|> ?0[steffen@wales ]$ git name-rev --name-only HEAD
|> stable/v14.8
|>
|> Is there another way except looking into .git/HEAD or using sed(1)
|> on the output of `branch' to find the right name?
|
|Have you tried "git symbolic-ref HEAD"?
Not until now.
|$ git symbolic-ref HEAD
|refs/heads/master
Works.
|If you don't want the fully-qualified ref, you can add --short:
|
|$ git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
|master
Yep, works even better. Fantastic. Thank you. And that command
was already existing when i have learned to use git(1), it is even
in the progit-09.markdown as of 2011-09-22 that i have laying
around. Five years, and anything forgotten. That is what you get
from working with blinkers on. Shame!
Thank you Bryan.
--steffen
From: Jakub Narębski <hidden> Date: 2016-09-21 13:43:40
W dniu 20.09.2016 o 20:54, Bryan Turner pisze:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Hello again,
yah, sorry, i'm back again..
I try to find a way to find the name of the current branch in an
automated way, because i need to ensure that a commit happens on
it and no other branch. Now the problem arises that the commit
ref at the time of that commit maybe shared in between several
different branches, but no more thereafter, of course:
?0[steffen@wales ]$ git branch|grep '^*'
* stable/v14.9
Not good, 'git branch' is a porcelain (user facing) command, so it
output may change; e.g. '*' could be replaced with '•'. For example
output for detached HEAD had changed!
quoted
?0[steffen@wales ]$ git name-rev --name-only HEAD
stable/v14.8
Is there another way except looking into .git/HEAD or using sed(1)
on the output of `branch' to find the right name?
Have you tried "git symbolic-ref HEAD"?
$ git symbolic-ref HEAD
refs/heads/master
If you don't want the fully-qualified ref, you can add --short:
$ git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
master
This does not work for detached HEAD, but perhaps you don't need
to worry about this.
$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD
refs/heads/master
But
$ git checkout HEAD^0
Note: checking out 'HEAD^0'.
You are in 'detached HEAD' state. [...]
$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD
HEAD
$ git symbolic-ref HEAD
fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref
$ git branch
* (HEAD detached at 3e2ebf9)
master
--
Jakub Narębski
Hello.
Jakub Narębski [off-list ref] wrote:
|W dniu 20.09.2016 o 20:54, Bryan Turner pisze:
|> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso [off-list ref] \
|> wrote:
|>> Hello again,
|>>
|>> yah, sorry, i'm back again..
|>> I try to find a way to find the name of the current branch in an
|>> automated way, because i need to ensure that a commit happens on
|>> it and no other branch. Now the problem arises that the commit
|>> ref at the time of that commit maybe shared in between several
|>> different branches, but no more thereafter, of course:
|>>
|>> ?0[steffen@wales ]$ git branch|grep '^*'
|>> * stable/v14.9
|
|Not good, 'git branch' is a porcelain (user facing) command, so it
|output may change; e.g. '*' could be replaced with '•'. For example
|output for detached HEAD had changed!
Ok. I went the road Bryan suggested, i had only forgotten this.
Yes, it caused mysterious bugs once rev-parse reversed the output,
but i didn't understand the order at first, anyway. With todays'
ever-rotating distributions i don't even try to keep up; currently
unthinkable to use the same release of an OS for five years, like
FreeBSD 5.3. Well.
...
|>> Is there another way except looking into .git/HEAD or using sed(1)
|>> on the output of `branch' to find the right name?
|>
|> Have you tried "git symbolic-ref HEAD"?
...
|This does not work for detached HEAD, but perhaps you don't need
|to worry about this.
No, not for me: it will only switch in between two different
stable/ which exist. But thanks, just give it to me!
| $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD
| refs/heads/master
This is a really good suggestion, which i will remember. I didn't
know this at all yet:
$ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name --abbrev-ref=strict HEAD
Seems to do exactly what i want, non-fragile, then.
...
|But
...
| You are in 'detached HEAD' state. [...]
|
| $ git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD
| HEAD
|
| $ git symbolic-ref HEAD
| fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref
|
| $ git branch
| * (HEAD detached at 3e2ebf9)
| master
And name-rev gives "HEAD master~2" in a test of mine, or only
"master~2", or "undefined" if i use --tags, for completeness sake.
Thanks, Jakub. I'm using the plumbing.
--steffen