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changed output in git branch -a

From
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Date
Jun 30, 2025, 10:23 UTC
Message-ID
<20250630121839.6252d9d9.olaf@aepfle.de>
Hello,

my dumb script parses the output of "git --git-dir=some/dir/.git branch -a". With git 2.43 it gets the expected list of "remote/branch". With git 2.50 it also gets something like "remote/HEAD -> remote/branch".

The newer version runs on a different system. It might be that the repository was already cloned with a different format. For some reason it does have .git/refs/remotes/${remote}/HEAD, but the system with the older git lacks that entry.

Is there a way to suppress such lines, or do I need to filter them manually? There is no obvious knob mentioned in git-branch(1).

Thanks, Olaf

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