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copied!<p>I'm trying to use GitPython to write some Python scripts which I can use it to simplify my daily tasks as I manage many branches.</p> <p>I'm also quite new for Python when it comes to writing complicated scripts.</p> <p>This is the API I used: <a href="http://packages.python.org/GitPython/0.3.2/index.html">GitPython API doc</a></p> <p>I want to write it in GitPython that simply does the following and parse out the part which shows me the HEAD remote branch is pointing. In another word, I want to basically get the <code>remotes/origin/HEAD</code></p> <pre><code>$ git branch -a master * branch_to_remove remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/master remotes/origin/testing </code></pre> <p>I browse the API doc many times, at first I'm having trouble to understand the Python format of these API docs, and I couldn't find anything useful to use to do for this other than <code>remote_head</code> in <code>class git.refs.reference.Reference(repo, path, check_path=True)</code> </p> <p>But I don't even know how to call/initialize it.</p> <p>Here is what I had so far, and you can tell what I'm trying to do, to simply reset to 'no branch' state and remove the current branch I'm on:</p> <pre><code>import git from git import * repo = git.Repo("/some/path/testing") repo.git.branch() [some code to get the remotes/origin/HEAD, set it to remoteHeadBranch ] repo.git.checkout(remoteHeadBranch) # this should reset the Git back to 'no branch' state repo.git.checkout(D="branch_to_remove") </code></pre> <p>Any help is much appreciated!</p> <p>Thanks.</p>

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