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From: Kate Ebneter <kate@ning•com>
To: <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Strange behavior (possible bug) using bash command subsitution with "git branch"
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:11:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C71C822C.22429%kate@ning.com> (raw)

Hi, folks,

I ran into a weird situation while working on a script, which is best
described with a little snippet from my gitosis-admin repository:

    $ git branch
    * master
    $ branch=$(git branch)
    $ echo $branch
    gitosis.conf keydir master


That is, if you run 'git branch' inside $() or ``, it lists the directories,
too. I can't imagine that this is intended behavior, but perhaps I'm wrong.

I can reproduce this on CentOS, Ubuntu, Solaris, and Mac OS X using git
1.6.2.3, 1.6.3.2, 1.6.3.3, 1.6.4.2, and 1.6.5.2.

(In the end, I figured out a better way to write my script anyway, but this
is just too weird not to ask about.)

Thanks,
Kate Ebneter
Somewhat befuddled build engineer

next             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-08 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-08 22:11 Kate Ebneter [this message]
2009-11-08 22:46 ` Strange behavior (possible bug) using bash command subsitution with "git branch" Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-08 22:50   ` Kate Ebneter
2009-11-08 22:49 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-11-08 23:03   ` Jeff King
2009-11-08 23:10     ` Kate Ebneter

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