Finding out the name of the original repository you cloned from in Git

Question

When you do your first clone using the syntax

git clone username@server:gitRepo.git

Is it possible using your local repository to find the name

Answer 1

Edited for clarity:

This will work to to get the value if the remote.origin.url is in the form protocol://auth_info@git_host:port/project/repo.git. If you find it doesn't work, adjust the -f5 option that is part of the first cut command.

For the example remote.origin.url of protocol://auth_info@git_host:port/project/repo.git the output created by the cut command would contain the following:

-f1: protocol: -f2: (blank) -f3: auth_info@git_host:port -f4: project -f5: repo.git

If you are having problems, look at the output of the git config --get remote.origin.url command to see which field contains the original repository. If the remote.origin.url does not contain the .git string then omit the pipe to the second cut command.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
repoSlug="$(git config --get remote.origin.url | cut -d/ -f5 | cut -d. -f1)"
echo ${repoSlug}