How to know which is the default branch #1364
-
|
How one can one which is the default branch? main/master? One can know about this by iterating all heads and then manually check , but that is also have one issue. How to get the default branch ? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
Replies: 3 comments 5 replies
-
|
The default branch is only relevant once, when initializing the repository and git has to decide how to name the only branch in the repository. From there the only questions that can be answered are…
|
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Is there any way to know the default_branch of repository? |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
There is a way to ask for configuration values, search for 'config' here. From there it's, it's using the right configuration key to get or set the value. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
I did |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Keep debugging and I am sure it will be possible to read config values from it. If that's not the case and reproducible please file an issue. |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
Can we rely upon Will it give the main branch of the repo (main/master or any branch which is main of the repo) |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
this seems to work bit verbose tho! |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
-
|
This doesn't work when |
Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
this seems to work
repo.remotes.origen.refs.HEAD.ref.remote_headbit verbose tho!