[SOLVED] How do you get the Git repository's name in some Git repository?

How do you get the Git repository's name in some Git repository?

When you are working in some Git directory, how can you get the Git repository name in some Git repository? Are there any Git commands?

# I did check out bar repository and working in somewhere 
# under bar directory at this moment such as below.

$ git clone git://github.com/foo/bar.git
$ cd bar/baz/qux/quux/corge/grault # and I am working in here!
$ git xxx # <- ???
bar

Solution

In Git, there's no concept of a repository name. The repository itself is kept under a directory in the file system (the one that contains the .git directory) and you can get the name of that directory with the following command:

basename `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`

The git rev-parse --show-toplevel part gives you the path to that directory and basename strips the first part of the path.

Another common sense interpretation to a "Git's repository name" is the name used to identify the repository in a Git hosting service (such as GitHub or GitLab). That name can be obtained by looking at the remote information, and a few different ways to achieve that are documented in other answers to this question.