def get_current_branch(self, location):
        """
        Return the current branch, or None if HEAD isn't at a branch
        (e.g. detached HEAD).
        """
        # git-symbolic-ref exits with empty stdout if "HEAD" is a detached
        # HEAD rather than a symbolic ref.  In addition, the -q causes the
        # command to exit with status code 1 instead of 128 in this case
        # and to suppress the message to stderr.
        args = ['symbolic-ref', '-q', 'HEAD']
        output = self.run_command(
            args, extra_ok_returncodes=(1, ), show_stdout=False, cwd=location,
        )
        ref = output.strip()

        if ref.startswith('refs/heads/'):
            return ref[len('refs/heads/'):]

        return None

        Return the current branch, or None if HEAD isn't at a branch
        (e.g. detached HEAD).
        
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