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From: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Subject: Re: git branch in Bash subshell "$(git branch -a)" including ls
 output as part of return?
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 16:58:10 +0000
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On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 11:52:28AM -0500, Alex Jones wrote:
> git branch -a output:
> 
> ajonespro:Deploy_Script ajones$ git branch -a
> 
> * DWH_concurrent_api
>   Email_No_Error_If_No_Old_Version
>   IT/configs_in_app_support
>   PHP_Build_Repo
>   master
>   remotes/origin/DWH_concurrent_api
>   remotes/origin/Email_No_Error_If_No_Old_Version
>   remotes/origin/IT/configs_in_app_support
>   remotes/origin/PHP_Build_Repo
>   remotes/origin/master
> 
> echo $(git branch -a) output:
> 
> ajonespro:Deploy_Script ajones$ echo $(git branch -a)
> AppDeploy WebDeploy DWH_concurrent_api
> Email_No_Error_If_No_Old_Version IT/configs_in_app_support
> PHP_Build_Repo master remotes/origin/DWH_concurrent_api
> remotes/origin/Email_No_Error_If_No_Old_Version
> remotes/origin/IT/configs_in_app_support remotes/origin/PHP_Build_Repo
> remotes/origin/master
> 
> While it might be hard to see from that output, The first two
> "branches" in the subshell's output are actually the directories
> contained within the repo.

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)"