Git: extract branch name in post update hook But if branch was deleted (for example by git push origin :branch-name), you will receive errors from this command, so I think it’s safer to use another method: As post-update hook receives branch’s path as first parameter (something like refs/heads/branch-name), you can extract the branch name using …

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branch=$(git rev-parse --symbolic --abbrev-ref $1)

branch=$(echo $1 | awk -F'/' '{print $3}')
if [ ! -f $1 ]; then
  echo "Branch $branch was deleted! Do something then.."
else
  echo "Branch $branch was updated! Do something then.."
fi