On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 11:49:55PM +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > I ran into a weird situation while working on a script, which is best > > described with a little snippet from my gitosis-admin repository: > > > > $ git branch > > * master > ^^^ > > > $ branch=$(git branch) > > $ echo $branch > > gitosis.conf keydir master > > Your shell expands the *, thus echo sees all the things in the current > directory. Use 'echo "$branch"' and you'll see what you expected. And more to the point, this is just one reason why one should use for-each-ref when scripting (the other is that git-branch's output is considered porcelain, and is not guaranteed to remain stable). E.g.: git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/ would produce the output the original poster wanted. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html