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

Add it to PS1 using Mac :

PS1='\W@\u >`[ -d .git ] && git branch | grep  ^*|cut -d" " -f2`> $ '

Before running the command above :

After running that command :

Dont worry, if it is not GIT repository , it will not display error because of [-d .git] which checks if .git folder exists or not.