How to get the current branch name in Git?

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mike628 picture mike628 · Jun 5, 2011 · Viewed 1.8M times · Source

I'm from a Subversion background and, when I had a branch, I knew what I was working on with "These working files point to this branch".

But with Git I'm not sure when I am editing a file in NetBeans or Notepad++, whether it's tied to the master or another branch.

There's no problem with git in bash, it tells me what I'm doing.

Answer

Jistanidiot picture Jistanidiot · Aug 27, 2012

To display the current branch you're on, without the other branches listed, you can do the following:

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

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