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

If you really want the last branch/tag checked out in detached HEAD state as well.

git reflog HEAD | grep 'checkout:' | head -1 | rev | cut -d' ' -f1 | rev

Update This is nicer if you have and aren't scared of awk.

git reflog HEAD | grep 'checkout:' | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}'