From: Anatol Rudolph <a.rudolph@2vizcon.com>
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: git branch command is incompatible with bash
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:12:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150727121253.GC17338@2vizcon.com> (raw)
Hello!
I hope posting this to this mailing list is okay, this is the first ever
mail that I submit to a technical mailing list.
When using the git branch command, git uses a '*' to denote the current
branch. Therefore, in bash this:
$ branchName=$(git branch -q)
$ echo $branchName
produces a directory listing, because the '*' is interpreded by the
shell.
While an (unwieldly) workaround exists:
$ branchName=$(git symbolic-ref -q HEAD)
$ branchName=${branch##refs/heads/}
it would still be nice, if there were a --current flag, that returned
only the current branch name, omitting the star:
$ branchName=$(git branch --current -q)
$ echo $branchName
master
next reply other threads:[~2015-07-27 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-27 12:12 Anatol Rudolph [this message]
2015-07-27 21:11 ` git branch command is incompatible with bash Johannes Sixt
2015-07-27 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-28 7:28 ` Johannes Sixt
2015-07-28 10:01 ` Jakub Narębski
2015-07-28 15:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-28 16:25 ` Jeff King
2015-07-28 17:27 ` Johannes Sixt
2015-07-29 0:23 ` Scott Schmit
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