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

I have a simple script called git-cbr (current branch) which prints out the current branch name.

#!/bin/bash

git branch | grep -e "^*"

I put this script in a custom folder (~/.bin). The folder is in $PATH.

So now when I'm in a git repo, I just simply type git cbr to print out the current branch name.

$ git cbr
* master

This works because the git command takes its first argument and tries to run a script that goes by the name of git-arg1. For instance, git branch tries to run a script called git-branch, etc.