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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