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

Over time, we might have a really long list of branches.

While some of the other solutions are great, Here is what I do (simplified from Jacob's answer):

git branch | grep \*

Now,

git status

works, but only If there are any local changes