BRANCH SHOWMAIN
Show main branch with the Unity Version Control CLI.
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Description
Shows the main branch of a repository. The main branch of your repository is/mainUsage
cm branch | br showmain [<repspec>] [--encoding=<name>] [--format=<format_str>] [--dateformat=<date_format>]
Options
Option / Argument | Description |
|---|---|
| Specifies the encoding to use in the output, |
- : utf-8. See the MSDN documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding.aspx to get the table of supported encodings and its format, (at the end of the page, in the "Name" column). --format Retrieves the output message in a specific format. See Remarks for more info. --dateformat Format used to output dates. repspec The repository specification where to show the main branch. If no repspec is specified, the command will show the main branch for the repository of the current workspace. (Use to learn more about rep specs.)
**cm** **help** **objectspec**
Help
Remarks
This command shows the main branch of a repository.Output format parameters (--format option)
This command accepts a format string to show the output. The output parameters of this command are the following:Option / Argument | Description |
|---|---|
| Branch id. |
| Comment. |
| Date. |
| Name. |
| Owner. |
| Parent branch name. |
| Repository. |
| Repository name. |
| Server. |
| Head changeset of the branch. |
Examples
(Displays the main branch for the repository of the current workspace.)cm branch showmain
(Displays the main branch for the repositorycm branch showmain repo@server:8084
reposerver:8084(Displays the main branch of the repository with a given date format, and the output is in utf-8.)cm br showmain --dateformat="yyyy, dd MMMM" --encoding=utf-8
(Displays the main branch of the repository, printing only its id and name.)cm br showmain --format="{id} - {name}"