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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-03-21 14:19:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-03-22 23:52:06 -0700 |
| commit | a31dca0393fefae894b7a155ae24000107bcc383 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e334ca87dd80fb74d5c23906dc5a97d74f69ba0 /Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | |
| parent | a552de75eb01f78046feaf7dc88e5e4833624ad5 (diff) | |
| download | git-a31dca0393fefae894b7a155ae24000107bcc383.tar.gz | |
check-ref-format --branch: give Porcelain a way to grok branch shorthand
The command may not be the best place to add this new feature, but
$ git check-ref-format --branch "@{-1}"
allows Porcelains to figure out what branch you were on before the last
branch switching.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt index 034223cc5a..51579f6776 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-check-ref-format.txt @@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ git-check-ref-format - Make sure ref name is well formed SYNOPSIS -------- +[verse] 'git check-ref-format' <refname> +'git check-ref-format' [--branch] <branchname-shorthand> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -49,6 +51,16 @@ refname expressions (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]). Namely: It may also be used to select a specific object such as with 'git-cat-file': "git cat-file blob v1.3.3:refs.c". +With the `--branch` option, it expands a branch name shorthand and +prints the name of the branch the shorthand refers to. + +EXAMPLE +------- + +git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}:: + +Print the name of the previous branch. + GIT --- |