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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

> Are you trying to say that the result of 'rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD'
> is suboptimal and that of 'symbolic-ref --short HEAD' is OK?

My "Interesting" was primarily about that I wasn't aware of the
"--abbrev-ref" option.

Yes, I am sure some time ago I accepted a patch to add it, but I
simply do not see the point, especially because the "--short" option
to symbolic-ref feels much more superiour.  "What branch am I on?"
is about symbolic refs, rev-parse is about revisions.

I can see that "symbolic-ref --short" is much newer than the other
one, so addition of "--abbrev-ref" to "rev-parse" may have been a
mistake made while being desperate (i.e. not having a way to do so
with plumbing, we wanted "some" way to do so and chose poorly).