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July 3, 2014 09:58
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| current_branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD` | |
| git show-branch -a | grep '*' | grep -v $current_branch | head -n1 | sed 's/.*\[\(.*\)\].*/\1/' | sed 's/[\^~].*//' |
I also have the warning cannot handle more than 25 refs :(
use 2>nul for git show-branch -a
as in below
current_branch=git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
git show-branch -a 2>nul | grep '' | grep -v $current_branch | head -n1 | sed 's/.[(.)]./\1/' | sed 's/[^~]].*//'
Just in case anyone else finds this, I wondered how 2>nul worked - it should 2>/dev/null; 2>nul creates a file called nul!
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All of the branches got the error like this: cannot handle more than 25 refs