From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Anatol Rudolph <a.rudolph@2vizcon.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git branch command is incompatible with bash
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 23:11:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55B69E68.90306@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150727121253.GC17338@2vizcon.com>
Am 27.07.2015 um 14:12 schrieb Anatol Rudolph:
> When using the git branch command, git uses a '*' to denote the current
> branch. Therefore, in bash this:
>
> $ branchName=$(git branch -q)
> $ echo $branchName
>
> produces a directory listing, because the '*' is interpreded by the
> shell.
Of course. You would write the last line as
echo "$branchName"
These are shell fundamentals.
> While an (unwieldly) workaround exists:
>
> $ branchName=$(git symbolic-ref -q HEAD)
> $ branchName=${branch##refs/heads/}
If you want to do that in a script, this is not a work-around, but it is
how you should do it. But you may want to use option --short to save the
second line.
> 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 $branchName
> master
Try
branchName=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-27 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-27 12:12 git branch command is incompatible with bash Anatol Rudolph
2015-07-27 21:11 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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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