how to get reference information from repository.head #203

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1. cholin commented on Apr 8, 2013

   

   cholin

   on Apr 8, 2013

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   Since Repository.revparse_single('HEAD') returns as well a commit object we could change Repository.head to return the reference instead. This is what the libgit2 function does as well. @jdavid or @esc what do you think?
2. esc commented on Apr 8, 2013

   

   esc

   on Apr 8, 2013

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   Is there any other way to obtain the reference?
3. jdavid commented on Apr 8, 2013

   

   jdavid

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   I like the proposition of @cholin, but since it changes the API it should go to the next branch, and only land in master after a release.

   @alexband @esc To get the resolved head reference you can type:

   head = repo.get_reference('HEAD').resolve()
   
4. alexband commented on Apr 8, 2013

   

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   @jdavid did you mean

   head = repo.lookup_reference('HEAD').resolve()

   I'll give try. Thank you all. And I think @cholin 's proposal sounds good
5. jdavid

   added a commit that references this issue on Apr 17, 2013

   Now Repository.head returns a reference (#203)

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   closed this as completedon Apr 17, 2013
7. alexband commented on Apr 17, 2013

   

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   @jdavid bravo! mucho gracias
8. jdavid

   added a commit that references this issue on Apr 20, 2013

   Release 0.18.1

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