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diff --git a/bin/git-default b/bin/git-default new file mode 100755 index 0000000..3dbd052 --- /dev/null +++ b/bin/git-default @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# Copyright (C) 2022 Miquel Sabaté Solà <mikisabate@gmail.com> +# +# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +# (at your option) any later version. +# +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +set -e + +# This script adds the `default` subcommand, which simply switches to the +# default branch of the current repository. Note that this is done locally. +# Hence, if you have changed your default branch just on your server, make sure +# to update the git repository before running this command. That being said, +# this should be a minor corner case. +# +# Moreover, this subcommand does not do *magical stuff*. That is, it won't try +# to stash whatever you currently have before jumping or anything like that. +# Consider this as an alias of `git checkout <my-default-branch>`, with all its +# consequences. The entire point of this subcommand is to jump into the default +# branch when you are so lost in your life that you no longer know if the +# repository you are working on is using `main`, `master`, `development`, or +# whatever. +# +# Last but not least, you can optionally pass an argument if your upstream is +# not named "origin". Thus, the usage of this is: +# +# $ git default # equivalent to `git checkout main` +# $ git default upstream # as before but your upstream is not `origin`. + +upstream="origin" +if [ -n "$1" ]; then + upstream="$1" +fi + +branch=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref "$upstream"/HEAD | cut -c8-) +git checkout "$branch" |