How to get the current branch name in Git?

Question

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 sur

Answer 1

git symbolic-ref -q --short HEAD

I use this in scripts that need the current branch name. It will show you the current short symbolic reference to HEAD, which will be your current branch name.