diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v1/projects/sync_repositories_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v1/projects/sync_repositories_controller.rb
index 047800415..ada71fa7d 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/v1/projects/sync_repositories_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/api/v1/projects/sync_repositories_controller.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 class Api::V1::Projects::SyncRepositoriesController < Api::V1::BaseController
-  before_action :require_public_and_member_above
+  before_action :require_public_and_member_above, except: [:sync]
+  before_action :load_project, only: [:sync]
 
   def index 
     @sync_repositories = @project.sync_repositories
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ class Api::V1::Projects::SyncRepositoriesController < Api::V1::BaseController
     else
       @sync_repositories = SyncRepository.where(project: @project, sync_direction: params[:sync_direction])
     end
-    branch = params[:ref].split("refs/heads/")[-1]
+    branch = params[:payload].present? ? JSON.parse(params[:payload])["ref"].split("/")[-1]  : params[:ref].split("/")[-1] rescue nil
     if params[:sync_direction].to_i == 1
       @sync_repository_branches = SyncRepositoryBranch.where(sync_repository_id: @sync_repositories, gitlink_branch_name: branch, enable: true)
     else