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. -- 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