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From: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Anatol Rudolph <a.rudolph@2vizcon.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git branch command is incompatible with bash
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 12:01:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55B752E0.7020901@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B72F09.3030000@kdbg.org>

W dniu 2015-07-28 o 09:28, Johannes Sixt pisze:
> Am 27.07.2015 um 23:49 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
>>
>>> Try
>>>
>>>    branchName=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
>>
>> Hmm, interesting.
>>
>>      $ git checkout --orphan notyet
>>      $ git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
>>      $ git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
>>
>
> Please don't scare newcomers with these corner cases ;-)

:-P

Yet another corner case:

   $ git checkout origin/master # or v1.0.0
   $ git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
   $ git symbolic-ref --short HEAD

> I see this:
>
> $ git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
> HEAD
> fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the
> working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
> 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

Errr... this error message is errorneous (well, at least somewhat
misleading). Git should know that HEAD is not a path, and that
--abbrev-ref doe not need no revision.

> $ git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
> notyet
>
> Are you trying to say that the result of 'rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD'
> is suboptimal and that of 'symbolic-ref --short HEAD' is OK?

-- 
Jakub Narębski

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-28 10:01 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
2015-07-27 21:49   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-28  7:28     ` Johannes Sixt
2015-07-28 10:01       ` Jakub Narębski [this message]
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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