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Getting current Git branch name using dulwich library

I am trying to get the name of the current branch of a Git repository using the dulwich library. I have spent lots of time looking through dulwich's documentation but could not find out how to do this.

Solution

  • This is my final result, which removes the initial refs/heads/ prefix:

    >>> from dulwich.repo import Repo
>>> import re
>>> repo = Repo('.')
>>> (_, ref), _ = repo.refs.follow(b'HEAD')
>>> match = re.search(r'/([^/]+)$', ref.decode('utf-8')
>>> match[1]
'master'