From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 07:28:09 GMT
Subject: Re: git branch command is incompatible with bash
Message-ID: <55B72F09.3030000@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh9opgtjz.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

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 ;-)

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>...]'
$ 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?

-- Hannes