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From: Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org>
Subject: Re: git branch in Bash subshell "$(git branch -a)" including ls
 output as part of return?
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 17:02:59 +0000
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On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 04:58:10PM +0000, Charles Bailey wrote:
> 
> Looking at the two outputs, you are seeing the shell's glob expansion of
> the '*' current branch marker. You probably want to quote the command
> expansion to prevent this:
> 
> echo "$(git branch -a)"

Pressing send has, of course, caused me to think further. You probably
don't want to parse the output of a "porcelain" command such as "git
branch" at all, but instead look at using something like "git
for-each-ref", perhaps with the --format=%(refname) option, grepping out
master and iterating through the rest.