for loop over all git branches with certain name

Question

I have the following git branches

foo
bar
foobar
feature/foo
feature/bar
feature/buzz

How would you do a for loop over all branches that start with the word 'feature/' ?

When I try the following, it strangely prints out more than just the git branches.

for i in $(git branch --list "feature/*"); do echo $i; done;
stuff.txt
icon.jpg
morestuff.txt
Vagrantfile
feature/foo
feature/bar
feature/buzz

Possible duplicate of How to iterate through all git branches using bash script — pihentagy
– pihentagy, Commented Aug 24, 2016 at 12:19

Andrew C · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-03 23:33:14Z

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"We actively discourage against use of any Porcelain command, including git branch, in scripts" - from the Git Maintainer's Blog

You want to use something like

git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/feature/

which will work fine inside a for br in $() construct

answered Nov 3, 2014 at 23:33

Andrew C

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H.v.M. Over a year ago

I'll add that the reason git branch doesn't work is because the output includes a * next to the current branch. If you echo * or for f in *; do echo $f; done you get the contents of the current directory.

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