diff --git a/modules/templates/helper.go b/modules/templates/helper.go
index 006a1e046..6f0690509 100755
--- a/modules/templates/helper.go
+++ b/modules/templates/helper.go
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ import (
 	"github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-core-go/v2"
 )
 
+const (
+	REF_HEADS_PREFIX = "refs/heads/"
+	REF_TAGS_PREFIX  = "refs/tags/"
+	REF_TYPE_BRANCH  = "branch"
+	REF_TYPE_TAG     = "tag"
+	REF_TYPE_PATTERN = "(refs/heads/|refs/tags/)"
+)
+
 // Used from static.go && dynamic.go
 var mailSubjectSplit = regexp.MustCompile(`(?m)^-{3,}[\s]*$`)
 
@@ -427,6 +435,8 @@ func NewTextFuncMap() []texttmpl.FuncMap {
 			}
 			return float32(n) * 100 / float32(sum)
 		},
+		"GetRefType": GetRefType,
+		"GetRefName": GetRefName,
 	}}
 }
 
@@ -444,10 +454,12 @@ func SafeJS(raw string) template.JS {
 func Str2html(raw string) template.HTML {
 	return template.HTML(markup.Sanitize(raw))
 }
+
 //
-func subOne(length int)int{
-	return length-1
+func subOne(length int) int {
+	return length - 1
 }
+
 // Escape escapes a HTML string
 func Escape(raw string) string {
 	return html.EscapeString(raw)
@@ -758,3 +770,18 @@ func licenses() []string {
 func tasks() []string {
 	return []string{"machine_translation", "question_answering_system", "information_retrieval", "knowledge_graph", "text_annotation", "text_categorization", "emotion_analysis", "language_modeling", "speech_recognition", "automatic_digest", "information_extraction", "description_generation", "image_classification", "face_recognition", "image_search", "target_detection", "image_description_generation", "vehicle_license_plate_recognition", "medical_image_analysis", "unmanned", "unmanned_security", "drone", "vr_ar", "2_d_vision", "2.5_d_vision", "3_d_reconstruction", "image_processing", "video_processing", "visual_input_system", "speech_coding", "speech_enhancement", "speech_synthesis"}
 }
+
+func GetRefType(ref string) string {
+	if strings.HasPrefix(ref, REF_HEADS_PREFIX) {
+		return REF_TYPE_BRANCH
+	}
+	if strings.HasPrefix(ref, REF_TAGS_PREFIX) {
+		return REF_TYPE_TAG
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+func GetRefName(ref string) string {
+	reg := regexp.MustCompile(REF_TYPE_PATTERN)
+	return reg.ReplaceAllString(ref, "")
+}