Subject: Re: best way to fastforward all tracking branches after a fetch

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:30:20 +0100

Gelonida N <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 12/11/2011 07:22 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> You can use 'upstream' field name in git-for-each-ref invocation,
>> for example
>> 
>>   git for-each-ref '--format=%(refname:short) %(upstream:short)' refs/heads |
>>   	grep -e ' [^ ]' |
>>   	sed  -e 's/ .*$//
>>  
> Thanks
>
>
>
>> This could probably be done using only sed -- grep is not necessary.
> I think the equivalent would be:
> sed '/ [^ ]/ s/ .*$//'

You need to suppress printing the non-matching lines.

  sed -n '/ [^ ]/ s/ .*$//p'

Andreas.

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