Subject: Re: git branch command is incompatible with bash

From: Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:28:09 +0200

Am 27.07.2015 um 23:49 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Johannes Sixt <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Try
>>
>>    branchName=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
>
> Hmm, interesting.
>
>      $ git checkout --orphan notyet
>      $ git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
>      $ git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
>

Please don't scare newcomers with these corner cases ;-)

I see this:

$ git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
HEAD
fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the 
working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
$ git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
notyet

Are you trying to say that the result of 'rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD' 
is suboptimal and that of 'symbolic-ref --short HEAD' is OK?

-- Hannes