如何检索Git分支的描述？

Question

Git supports branch descriptions. They can be edited with git branch --edit-description .

How can I retrieve that description from the command line for consumption by other shell utilities?

One way to do this is to temporarily set $EDITOR (or core.editor) to cat or an equivalent before calling git branch --edit-description , but it is somewhat invasive, and it returns several comment lines that I would prefer to do without (even though filtering them would be an option if there is no better way).

Answer 1

git config --get-all branch.$branch.description