From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:13:56 GMT
Subject: Re: changed output in git branch -a
Message-ID: <55b294bc-833d-4115-823a-2008657e68dc@app.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250630121839.6252d9d9.olaf@aepfle.de>

On Mon, Jun 30, 2025, at 12:23, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 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).

Can you use something like

    git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' --exclude='**/HEAD'

Instead?  The output of this f-e-r command is stable.

-- 
Kristoffer Haugsbakk