I have these branches:
refs/heads/master
refs/heads/feature/dummy
Is there native git command to get only the last part of branch name? (master, dummy in the above example)
I have tried git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD but will get master and feature/dummy
I think there isn't one, simply because git allows forward slashes in branch names. Take a look at git-branch docs to see how the branchname is defined:
Further more, take a look at the git-check-ref-format docs to understand how can you restrict this, if need be (--allow-onelevel).
With all that in mind, I think git sees the branch name as a whole, including the slash, so it wouldn't need to provide any specific command to parse it, but you can always pipe the branch name to another tool that will filter it out. For example this SO answer addresses such case. You would probably have to use something like: value=${str#*/}.
The following also seems to work:
$ git name-rev --name-only refs/heads/master
master
This appears to be very similar to the rev-parse solution you proposed yourself. It also appears to work on hashes, e.g. where b51e7569 is the commit pointed to by master:
$ git name-rev --name-only b51e7569
master
git name-rev --name-only HEAD did the trick.
dummyin the list you posted. The name of the second branch isfeature/dummy. Git cannot identify it if you use onlydummy. Try to rungit checkout dummyand it will fail.feature/dummydummy, notfeature/dummy. This is because I have further processing that will not work with the forward slashSonarQubewhich will automatically strip thefeature/part of the branchname. I'll then have some code to hit Sonar's API to get analysis result, I'll need to pass in the short branchname as a param. But yeah, I can trygrepor tokenize, I just want to know if there is a native git commandgit rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | xargs basename?