{% comment %} identify the default branch of the GitHub repo for the lesson, to create the correct link for "Improve on GitHub" {% endcomment %} {% comment %} First, get the name of the repository {% endcomment %} {% assign repo_name = site.github.repository_name %} {% comment %} `site.github.public_repositories` contains comprehensive information for all public repositories for the organization. We use `where` to extract the part of the metadata that is relevant to the present repository. {% endcomment %} {% assign repo_info = site.github.public_repositories | where: "name", repo_name %} {% comment %} Now, we can extract the default branch for the repo {% endcomment %} {% assign default_branch = repo_info[0].default_branch %}