Re: git branch command is incompatible with bash

From: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 28, 2015, 10:01 UTC
Message-ID: <55B752E0.7020901@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <55B72F09.3030000@kdbg.org>

W dniu 2015-07-28 o 09:28, Johannes Sixt pisze:

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> 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 ;-)

:-P

Yet another corner case:

   $ git checkout origin/master # or v1.0.0
   $ git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
   $ git symbolic-ref --short HEAD

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> 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>...]'

Errr... this error message is errorneous (well, at least somewhat misleading). Git should know that HEAD is not a path, and that --abbrev-ref doe not need no revision.

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> $ 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?

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Jakub Narębski