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Re: git branch command is incompatible with bash

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 27, 2015, 21:49 UTC
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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
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