GitHub Markdown - Add current branch name

Question

Just a short question:

Is it possible to show the current branch name in e.g. README.md automatically with a placeholder or something like that using GitHub Flavored Markdown?

Answer 1

No, I'm not aware of anything like that within READMEs or any other markdown documents when browsing through the source of your project. And nothing turns up when searching their help page either.

However, GitHub Pages offers all sorts of info about the repo the document is associated with. Of course, GitHub Pages is a very different thing than a README file, so that may or may not be helpful to you.