Am 27.07.2015 um 14:12 schrieb Anatol Rudolph:
When using the git branch command, git uses a '*' to denote the current
branch. Therefore, in bash this:
$ branchName=$(git branch -q)
$ echo $branchName
produces a directory listing, because the '*' is interpreded by the
shell.
Of course. You would write the last line as
echo "$branchName"
These are shell fundamentals.
While an (unwieldly) workaround exists:
$ branchName=$(git symbolic-ref -q HEAD)
$ branchName=${branch##refs/heads/}
If you want to do that in a script, this is not a work-around, but it is
how you should do it. But you may want to use option --short to save the
second line.
it would still be nice, if there were a --current flag, that returned
only the current branch name, omitting the star:
$ branchName=$(git branch --current -q)
$ echo $branchName
master
Try
branchName=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
-- Hannes
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