Hello!
I hope posting this to this mailing list is okay, this is the first ever
mail that I submit to a technical mailing list.
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.
While an (unwieldly) workaround exists:
$ branchName=$(git symbolic-ref -q HEAD)
$ branchName=${branch##refs/heads/}
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
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