On 11/8/09 3:03 PM, "Jeff King" <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Ah, sweet, I did not know about that. I ended up doing something entirely different (short form: my original idea about what I wanted to do was wrong) but that's very helpful for the future. Thanks, Kate Ebneter (who is gradually learning more and more about git) -- 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