cm find current branch?

[sgrassie]

Is there a way from the command line to find what the currently active branch in the repo is?

[ollieblanks]

Hi,

I believe the command you want is cm showselector. To find out more about this command please type in cm showselector --help.

Hope that helps!

[Patrice Beauvais]

cm status --header is not bad too since it returns the last synched changeset at same time too..

[Wolfram]

On 3/24/2022 at 2:03 PM, Patrice Beauvais said:

cm status --header is not bad too since it returns the last synched changeset at same time too..

But it may not return the branch name at all, if the selector is on a changeset (for example, you right-clicked on a changeset (instead of the branch) and did a "Switch workspace to...").

Note that IF (and only if) the selector is on a changeset, "cm showselector" does print the associated cs number as well.

[ollieblanks]

The command cm status --machinereadable --header will always return the changeset number as the second output parameter. With this information you can run cm log cs:## --csformat={branch} to return the branch name.

(Only caveat is this solution will not work on Gluon workspaces, as they don't technically point to a single changeset!)

Hope this helps!