Not able to detect branch from Git post-receive hook

Question

I\'ve got a post receive hook setup on the remote repo that tries to determine the branch name of the incoming push as follows:

$branch = `git rev-parse --abbrev         


        

Answer 1

You could also do something like this using bash variable substitution:

read oldrev newrev ref

branchname=${ref#refs/heads/}

git checkout ${branchname}