GitHub Actions: Get Current Branch Name for Git Repo

How to get the current branch name in GitHub Actions can be useful for workflows that trigger off of multiple branches of a GitHub repository. The reason this can be useful is that the branch name may be important to mark or tag the code release in some way (i.e.…

04/06/2024 Article Bloggers Chris Pietschmann

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