How to know which is the default branch #1364
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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 ? |
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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…
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Is there any way to know the default_branch of repository? |
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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. |
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I did |
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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. |
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Can we rely upon Will it give the main branch of the repo (main/master or any branch which is main of the repo) |
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this seems to work bit verbose tho! |
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This doesn't work when |
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this seems to work
repo.remotes.origin.refs.HEAD.ref.remote_headbit verbose tho!