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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: git branch command is incompatible with bash
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:49:20 -0700
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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