Is there a git command that returns the current project name?

Question

Does git have a built-in command for showing the name of the current remote project? Right now I\'m using this:

git remote -v | head -n1 | awk \'{print $2}\' | s         


        

Answer 1

There is no such thing as a project name in Git. You are simply getting the name of the folder the repository is located in remotely. Git has no built-in way of computing this as it has absolutely no use for it.

Answer 2

basename $(git config remote.origin.url |sed "s/\.git$//")

or:

git config remote.origin.url |sed 's#.*\/\(.*\)\.git#\1#'

Answer 3

I would like to point out the same answer @Mike mentioned in the comments to your question, the $GIT_DIR/description file. Some other software use this for the name of the repository, such as the post-receive-email hook script. (Which actually does sed -ne '1p' "$GIT_DIR/description") and thus simply use the first line from that file as the name of the repository.

Answer 4

What you are doing is fine. I would not trust that someone won't change the name in a readme file. Use the URL as you are doing. Decide on a convention so that origin always refers to the central repo where the urls will contain the identity.

Answer 5

The remote url or the folder in which the git repo is kept can be anything as far as Git is concerned. So you do not have a built-in way for checking this. Git cannot identify what the name of the project is. You have to ( or the owner of the project). Usually, this will be in the form of a README or some similar file checked into the repository that gives the name of the project.

Answer 6

Chained head awk and sed calls like this

git remote -v | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/.*\///' | sed 's/\.git//'

can be combined into one sed call like this:

git remote -v  | sed -rn '1s#.*/(.*)\.git.*#\1#p'