On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:00:27 +0100 martin f krafft <[email protected]> wrote:
> also sprach Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]> [2011.03.20.1235 > +0100]: > > oh, one more thing. > > you can query the current branch in a pure-python way, by > > reading .git/HEAD > > No, please do not use this. Use > > git symbolic-ref -q HEAD || git name-rev --name-only HEAD > well, the idea behind doing it in pure-python is removing the overhead of spawning extra processes, do you have an argument why reading the branchname of the current HEAD in a few lines of python is bad? Dieter _______________________________________________ vcs-home mailing list [email protected] http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home
