Is there a git command that returns the current project name?

Question

Does git have a built-in command for showing the name of the current remote project? Right now I\'m using this:

git remote -v | head -n1 | awk \'{print $2}\' | s         


        

Answer 1

It looks like your script is pulling the last part of the remote URL and using that as the project name. This works when using a single remote site, such as http://bitbucket.org but your system will not work universally across all users of that repository.

Users generally all have different remote repositories, in fact on many projects you will have multiple remotes. Git does not care where a repository comes from when fetching and merging. The merge algorithm will even accept branches with no common ancestor.

The only real solution is to create a text file in the root of each repository that contains the project name. This solution will work across all users, regardless of how they setup their remotes.