git-symbolic-ref

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git-symbolic-ref(1) ===================

NAME ---- git-symbolic-ref - Read, modify and delete symbolic refs

SYNOPSIS --------

’git symbolic-ref’ [-m \<reason>] \<name> \<ref>\ ’git symbolic-ref’ [-q] [--short] [--no-recurse] \<name>\ ’git symbolic-ref’ --delete [-q] \<name>

DESCRIPTION ----------- Given one argument, reads which branch head the given symbolic ref refers to and outputs its path, relative to the .git/ directory. Typically you would give HEAD as the \<name> argument to see which branch your working tree is on.

Given two arguments, creates or updates a symbolic ref \<name> to point at the given branch \<ref>.

Given --delete and an additional argument, deletes the given symbolic ref.

A symbolic ref is a regular file that stores a string that begins with ref: refs/. For example, your .git/HEAD is a regular file whose content is ref: refs/heads/master.

OPTIONS -------

-d

--delete
Delete the symbolic ref \<name>.

-q

--quiet
Do not issue an error message if the \<name> is not a symbolic ref but a detached HEAD; instead exit with non-zero status silently.

--short
When showing the value of \<name> as a symbolic ref, try to shorten the value, e.g. from refs/heads/master to master.

--recurse

--no-recurse
When showing the value of \<name> as a symbolic ref, if \<name> refers to another symbolic ref, follow such a chain of symbolic refs until the result no longer points at a symbolic ref (--recurse, which is the default). --no-recurse stops after dereferencing only a single level of symbolic ref.

-m
Update the reflog for \<name> with \<reason>. This is valid only when creating or updating a symbolic ref.

NOTES ----- In the past, .git/HEAD was a symbolic link pointing at refs/heads/master. When we wanted to switch to another branch, we did ln -sf refs/heads/newbranch .git/HEAD, and when we wanted to find out which branch we are on, we did readlink .git/HEAD. But symbolic links are not entirely portable, so they are now deprecated and symbolic refs (as described above) are used by default.

’git symbolic-ref’ will exit with status 0 if the contents of the symbolic ref were printed correctly, with status 1 if the requested name is not a symbolic ref, or 128 if another error occurs.