How to know which is the default branch #1364

dsharma522 · 2021-10-20T19:21:29Z

dsharma522
Oct 20, 2021

How one can one which is the default branch? main/master?

One can know about this by iterating all heads and then manually check , but that is also have one issue.
What if a repository has both the branches as their branch, which means master, main are some branch and default branch could be one of these or something else.

How to get the default branch ?

Answered by richtier

Nov 19, 2021

this seems to work repo.remotes.origin.refs.HEAD.ref.remote_head

bit verbose tho!

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Byron · 2021-10-20T23:22:37Z

Byron
Oct 20, 2021
Maintainer

The default branch is only relevant once, when initializing the repository and git has to decide how to name the only branch in the repository. From there the only questions that can be answered are…

which branch is currently checked out
which remote is associated with a branch

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dsharma522 Oct 21, 2021
Author

Is there any way to know the default_branch of repository?

Byron Oct 22, 2021
Maintainer

There is a way to ask for configuration values, search for 'config' here. From there it's, it's using the right configuration key to get or set the value.

dsharma522 Oct 22, 2021
Author

I did repo.config_reader() with all possible config levels (system, global,repository) , it outputs ['DEFAULT'] for every case. Tested with many repositories

Byron Oct 23, 2021
Maintainer

Keep debugging and I am sure it will be possible to read config values from it. If that's not the case and reproducible please file an issue.

dsharma522 · 2021-10-25T08:04:43Z

dsharma522
Oct 25, 2021
Author

Can we rely upon

repo = git.Repo('repo')
name = repo.heads[0]
print(name)

Will it give the main branch of the repo (main/master or any branch which is main of the repo)

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richtier · 2021-11-19T15:26:55Z

richtier
Nov 19, 2021

this seems to work repo.remotes.origin.refs.HEAD.ref.remote_head

bit verbose tho!

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agowa Oct 8, 2024

This doesn't work when refs/remotes/origin/HEAD has not yet been created.
With the git binary the correct command would be git remote set-head origin -a. Does anyone know what the GitPython equivalent to this is?

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