Display the Name of Current Git Branch

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Display the Name of Current Git Branch
Question by:  Ray Paseur On 2016-02-01 10:12 PM  Views 25
I would like to be able to use PHP to display the name of my current branch.  What would be a good way to discern and display which Git branch I'm currently using?

One thought that has occurred to me would be to place a "branch-name" file in each branch, and display the information from that file.  Has anybody tried something like this?  Does it seem feasible?

Thanks!
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Fouad Maidine
Accepted Solution 2016-02-01 at 22:28:11ID: 41444176500
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In 2 lines ^^
$root='.git/HEAD' ;
$name= implode('/', array_slice(explode('/', file_get_contents($root)), 2));


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I do not know if it's the best way to do this but it works
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Ray Paseur
Author Closing Comment 2016-02-02 at 16:06:31ID: 41445360
Works beautifully!  Thanks, ~Ray
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