@@ -, +, @@ 
 front-slashes.
---
 irkerhook.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/irkerhook.py	
+++ a/irkerhook.py	
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ default_channels = "irc://chat.freenode.net/#commits"
 
 version = "2.7"
 
-import os, sys, commands, socket, urllib, subprocess, locale, datetime
+import os, sys, commands, socket, urllib, subprocess, locale, datetime, re
 from pipes import quote as shellquote
 try:
     import simplejson as json	# Faster, also makes us Python-2.5-compatible
@@ -258,7 +258,8 @@ class GitExtractor(GenericExtractor):
     def commit_factory(self, commit_id):
         "Make a Commit object holding data for a specified commit ID."
         commit = Commit(self, commit_id)
-        commit.branch = os.path.basename(self.refname)
+        # Get rid of refs/*/ for cleaner output.
+        commit.branch = re.sub(r"^refs/[^/]*/", "", self.refname)
         # Compute a description for the revision
         if self.revformat == 'raw':
             commit.rev = commit.commit