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Subject: Re: Strange behavior (possible bug) using bash command subsitution
 with "git branch"
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:49:55 +0100
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On 2009.11.08 14:11:56 -0800, Kate Ebneter wrote:
> Hi, folks,
>=20
> I ran into a weird situation while working on a script, which is best
> described with a little snippet from my gitosis-admin repository:
>=20
>     $ git branch
>     * master
     ^^^

>     $ branch=3D$(git branch)
>     $ echo $branch
>     gitosis.conf keydir master

Your shell expands the *, thus echo sees all the things in the current
directory. Use 'echo "$branch"' and you'll see what you expected.

Bj=F6rn