Function to programmatically get the current commit of a git repository via Python.

get_current_commit.py

from pathlib import Path

def get_commit(repo_path):
    git_folder = Path(repo_path,'.git')
    head_name = Path(git_folder, 'HEAD').read_text().split('\n')[0].split(' ')[-1]
    head_ref = Path(git_folder,head_name)
    commit = head_ref.read_text().replace('\n','')
    return commit

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cloned_repo_path = '/home/ndc/repos/GithubPythonCodeSmellCrawler/src/dumps/pylama'
    r = get_commit(cloned_repo_path)
    print(r)