I'm trying to automatically "archive" some local branches on Windows using the MinGW Bash on Windows.
I copy and pasted the content of git branch
on a txt file (branches_to_be_archived.txt
) and then I wrote:
A script to archive a single branch
#!/bin/bash
BRANCH_NAME=$1
echo "Branch name is $BRANCH_NAME"
git tag archive/$BRANCH_NAME $BRANCH_NAME
git branch -D $BRANCH_NAME
A script to archive every branch from a file
#!/bin/bash
FILE=./branches_to_be_archived.txt
LINES=$(cat $FILE)
for LINE in $LINES
do
./archive_branch.sh.txt $LINE
done
I inserted some echo prints and they are ok but executing git commands will raise an error like this:
fatal: Failed to resolve '[actual name of the branch]?' as a valid ref.
With a trailing ? that is not shown anywhere.
Any way to avoid having this question mark at the end?
CodePudding user response:
Indeed, it was a endline characters issue (Win CRLF
and Linux LF
).
I solved by using Notepad
and setting EOL -> Linux (LF)
but I think that dos2unix
for branches list file works just fine