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Hank-Roughknuckles
Hank-Roughknuckles

Reputation: 578

Git syntactic sugar for "current branch"?

I know that in git you can use - to refer to the previous branch you were on.

So for example, if I'm in the tester branch and run git checkout master, then decide I want to go back to tester, I could run git checkout - instead of git checkout tester.

My question is this:

Is there some kind of syntactic sugar in git that allows me to reference the current branch I'm in?

So for instance, if I'm in master and want to run git pull origin master, could I run instead git pull origin {current branch sugar}?

It's mostly just getting annoying having to specify the current branch name for common commands like push, pull, etc.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 130

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1324063

Actually, a git pull should be enough, provided your branch is set with an upstream branch

git branch -u origin/master master

So it isn't so much a syntactic sugar which reference the current branch: this is more default parameters of git commands.
For git pull for instance:

Default values for <repository> and <branch> are read from the "remote" and "merge" configuration for the current branch as set by git-branch --track.

Upvotes: 1

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