'git branch' shows which branch you are currently on with an '*', but
'git for-each-ref' misses this feature.  So, extend its format with
%(HEAD) for the same effect.

Now you can use the following format in for-each-ref:

  %(HEAD) %(refname:short)

to display an asterisk next to the current ref.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt |  4 ++++
 builtin/for-each-ref.c             | 13 +++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt 
b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
index f2e08d1..ab3da0e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-for-each-ref.txt
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ upstream::
        from the displayed ref. Respects `:short` in the same way as
        `refname` above.
 
+HEAD::
+       Used to indicate the currently checked out branch.  Is '*' if
+       HEAD points to the current ref, and ' ' otherwise.
+
 In addition to the above, for commit and tag objects, the header
 field names (`tree`, `parent`, `object`, `type`, and `tag`) can
 be used to specify the value in the header field.
diff --git a/builtin/for-each-ref.c b/builtin/for-each-ref.c
index 1d4083c..5f1842f 100644
--- a/builtin/for-each-ref.c
+++ b/builtin/for-each-ref.c
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ static struct {
        { "upstream" },
        { "symref" },
        { "flag" },
+       { "HEAD" },
 };
 
 /*
@@ -675,8 +676,16 @@ static void populate_value(struct refinfo *ref)
                                v->s = xstrdup(buf + 1);
                        }
                        continue;
-               }
-               else
+               } else if (!strcmp(name, "HEAD")) {
+                       const char *head;
+                       unsigned char sha1[20];
+                       head = resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", sha1, 1, NULL);
+                       if (!strcmp(ref->refname, head))
+                               v->s = "*";
+                       else
+                               v->s = " ";
+                       continue;
+               } else
                        continue;
 
                formatp = strchr(name, ':');
-- 
1.8.5.rc0.3.g914176d.dirty

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