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Re: git branch in Bash subshell "$(git branch -a)" including ls output as part of return?

From
Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Date
Dec 7, 2015, 17:02 UTC
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<20151207170259.GA25915@hashpling.org>
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<20151207165810.GA25856@hashpling.org>
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 04:58:10PM +0000, Charles Bailey wrote:
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> Looking at the two outputs, you are seeing the shell's glob expansion of
> the '*' current branch marker. You probably want to quote the command
> expansion to prevent this:
> 
> echo "$(git branch -a)"

Pressing send has, of course, caused me to think further. You probably don't want to parse the output of a "porcelain" command such as "git branch" at all, but instead look at using something like "git for-each-ref", perhaps with the --format=%(refname) option, grepping out master and iterating through the rest.

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