Re: git branch in Bash subshell "$(git branch -a)" including ls output as part of return?
That did the trick, thanks for the help and the suggestion.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 04:58:10PM +0000, Charles Bailey wrote:
>>
>> Looking at the two outputs, you are seeing the shell's glob expansion of
>> the '*' current branch marker. You probably want to quote the command
>> expansion to prevent this:
>>
>> echo "$(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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