diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/ghpages.sh b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/ghpages.sh
index c286d792..bcee92e9 100755
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/ghpages.sh
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/ghpages.sh
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ function retrieve_current_branch() {
     # Code getting the name of the current branch. For master we want to publish as we did until now
     # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1593051/how-to-programmatically-determine-the-current-checked-out-git-branch
     # If there is a branch already passed will reuse it - otherwise will try to find it
-    echo "BRANCH=${BRANCH}"
     CURRENT_BRANCH=${BRANCH}
     if [[ -z "${CURRENT_BRANCH}" ]] ; then
       CURRENT_BRANCH=$("${GIT_BIN}" symbolic-ref -q HEAD)
diff --git a/docs/src/test/bats/ghpages.bats b/docs/src/test/bats/ghpages.bats
index 05cf0d8a..ad7a4aaa 100644
--- a/docs/src/test/bats/ghpages.bats
+++ b/docs/src/test/bats/ghpages.bats
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ export -f stubbed_git
 }
 
 @test "should upload the built docs to spring-cloud-static gh-pages branch for non-snapshot versions" {
+	export BRANCH=master
 	export GIT_BIN="stubbed_git"
 	export SOURCE_FUNCTIONS=""
 	export RELEASER_GIT_OAUTH_TOKEN="mytoken"
@@ -146,6 +147,7 @@ export -f stubbed_git
 }
 
 @test "should upload the release train docs to spring-cloud-static under the release train folder" {
+	export BRANCH=master
 	export GIT_BIN="stubbed_git"
 	export SOURCE_FUNCTIONS=""
 	export RELEASER_GIT_OAUTH_TOKEN="mytoken"
@@ -218,6 +220,7 @@ export -f stubbed_git
 }
 
 @test "should retrieve the name of the current branch" {
+	export BRANCH=master
 	export GIT_BIN="stubbed_git"
 	cd "${TEMP_DIR}/spring-cloud-stream/"
 	source "${SOURCE_DIR}"/ghpages.sh