Can a git-controlled file be aware of which branch it belongs to?

Question

Maybe it might be a strange need, but I believe it would be helpful to have something like this:

if($branch$ === \"master) {
   // Special code for the maste         


        

Answer 1

No, all meta file information is stored under .git in the root directory. You can detect the current branch with the following bash command (code modified, but originally found here):

function parse_git_branch() {
  git branch --no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e "s/* \(.*\)/\1/"
}