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+#!/bin/bash -e
+
+# Documentation is published to a URL depending on the branch of the
+# openstack-manuals project.  This script determines what that location
+# should be, and writes a properties file.  This is used by Jenkins when
+# invoking certain docs jobs and made available to maven.
+
+# In case we start doing something more sophisticated with other refs
+# later (such as tags).
+BRANCH=$GERRIT_REFNAME
+
+# The master branch should get published to /trunk
+if [ $BRANCH == "master" ]
+then
+    DOC_RELEASE_PATH="trunk"
+fi
+
+# The stable/diablo branch should get published to /diablo
+if [[ $BRANCH =~ ^stable/(.*)$ ]]
+then
+    DOC_RELEASE_PATH=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
+fi
+
+echo "DOC_RELEASE_PATH=$DOC_RELEASE_PATH" >$WORKSPACE/gerrit-doc.properties