From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:49:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Strange behavior (possible bug) using bash command subsitution with "git branch"
Message-ID: <20091108224955.GA14095@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <C71C822C.22429%kate@ning.com>

On 2009.11.08 14:11:56 -0800, Kate Ebneter wrote:
> Hi, folks,
> 
> I ran into a weird situation while working on a script, which is best
> described with a little snippet from my gitosis-admin repository:
> 
>     $ git branch
>     * master
     ^^^

>     $ branch=$(git branch)
>     $ echo $branch
>     gitosis.conf keydir master

Your shell expands the *, thus echo sees all the things in the current
directory. Use 'echo "$branch"' and you'll see what you expected.

Björn