diff --git a/Scripts/developer_scripts/run_testsuite_with_cmake b/Scripts/developer_scripts/run_testsuite_with_cmake
index 976a9d5b5ee..262bb9baf81 100644
--- a/Scripts/developer_scripts/run_testsuite_with_cmake
+++ b/Scripts/developer_scripts/run_testsuite_with_cmake
@@ -324,8 +324,14 @@ run_test_on_platform()
   cat "${CGAL_BINARY_DIR}/package_installation.log" >> "Installation/${TEST_REPORT}"
   
   #call the python script to complete the results report.
+  #if git branch, create empty scm file for python script
+  if [ -n "${SCRIPTS_DIR}" ]; then
+    touch ../../../../../.scm-branch
+  fi
   python3 ${CGAL_DIR}/${TESTSUITE_DIR}test/get_deactivated_packages_info.py Installation/${TEST_REPORT} ${TEST_REPORT} results_${CGAL_TESTER}_${PLATFORM}.txt
-  
+  if [ -n "${SCRIPTS_DIR}" ]; then
+    rm ../../../../../.scm-branch
+  fi
   rm -f $OUTPUT_FILE $OUTPUT_FILE.gz
   tar cf $OUTPUT_FILE results_${CGAL_TESTER}_${PLATFORM}.txt */"$TEST_REPORT"
   echo
diff --git a/Testsuite/test/parse-ctest-dashboard-xml.py b/Testsuite/test/parse-ctest-dashboard-xml.py
index b197db9997c..6258d56babe 100644
--- a/Testsuite/test/parse-ctest-dashboard-xml.py
+++ b/Testsuite/test/parse-ctest-dashboard-xml.py
@@ -100,11 +100,13 @@ for label, tests in tests_per_label.items():
                                                               tester=tester_name,
                                                               platform=platform_name), 'w') as label_report:
             print("""
+{scm_branch}
 ------------------------------------------------------------------
 - Error output from platform {platform}
 ------------------------------------------------------------------
 {error_txt}
-"""               .format(platform=platform_name,
+"""               .format(scm_branch=open("{}/../../../../../.scm-branch".format(os.getcwd()), 'r').read(),
+                         platform=platform_name,
                          error_txt=open("{}/error.txt".format(label), 'r').read()), file=label_report)
             for t in tests:
                 filename="{}/ProgramOutput.{}".format(label, t['Name'])