Retrieving the Current Branch Name in a Git Repository

In Airflow, Datacoves will place your repo into /opt/airflow/dags/

To retrieve the current branch name in a Git repository.

cat /opt/airflow/dags/.git/HEAD | sed 's~ref: refs/heads/~~

This command consists of two parts:

cat .git/HEAD : This part of the command displays the content of the HEAD file, which contains a reference to the current branch in the Git repository.

sed 's~ref: refs/heads/~~' : The output of the cat command is then piped to the sed command, which is used to remove the ref: refs/heads/ prefix from the branch name, thereby extracting the current branch name.