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 know this is late but on a linux/mac ,from the terminal you can use the following.

git status | sed -n 1p

Explanation:

git status -> gets the working tree status
sed -n 1p -> gets the first line from the status body

Response to the above command will look as follows:

"On branch your_branch_name"