how can git post-receive hook get name of repo it is running on?

Question

I have a git post receive hook that will trigger a build on my build system. I need to create a string of the form \"$repo-name + $branch\" in the hook script.

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Answer 1

You could do git rev-parse --show-toplevel, which will give you the path of the top-level directory, and pull the name out of that (reponame.git is conventional for remotely-accessible repos).

$PWD might also have the same information, but I'm unsure.