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| author | Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs> | 2012-02-28 02:10:38 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-02-28 03:58:36 +0400 |
| commit | 42b00599be684e20462c431a718f86c2b6fce575 (patch) | |
| tree | 81d9579d42fbc12ea8dd3013f24319b6bce17531 /builtin/symbolic-ref.c | |
| parent | 3724cc7c58df709cffbf6cc0701d1ca6fa5a5ba2 (diff) | |
symbolic-ref --short: abbreviate the output unambiguously
It can be helpful to resolve a symbolic ref and output the result in a
shortened form, such as for use in shell prompts. Add a "--short" option
to do so.
Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/symbolic-ref.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/symbolic-ref.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/symbolic-ref.c b/builtin/symbolic-ref.c index 2ef5962386..801d62ece5 100644 --- a/builtin/symbolic-ref.c +++ b/builtin/symbolic-ref.c @@ -8,13 +8,15 @@ static const char * const git_symbolic_ref_usage[] = { NULL }; +static int shorten; + static void check_symref(const char *HEAD, int quiet) { unsigned char sha1[20]; int flag; - const char *refs_heads_master = resolve_ref_unsafe(HEAD, sha1, 0, &flag); + const char *refname = resolve_ref_unsafe(HEAD, sha1, 0, &flag); - if (!refs_heads_master) + if (!refname) die("No such ref: %s", HEAD); else if (!(flag & REF_ISSYMREF)) { if (!quiet) @@ -22,7 +24,9 @@ static void check_symref(const char *HEAD, int quiet) else exit(1); } - puts(refs_heads_master); + if (shorten) + refname = shorten_unambiguous_ref(refname, 0); + puts(refname); } int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) @@ -32,6 +36,7 @@ int cmd_symbolic_ref(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) struct option options[] = { OPT__QUIET(&quiet, "suppress error message for non-symbolic (detached) refs"), + OPT_BOOL(0, "short", &shorten, "shorten ref output"), OPT_STRING('m', NULL, &msg, "reason", "reason of the update"), OPT_END(), }; |