Show which git tag you are on?

Question

I\'m having trouble finding out which tag is currently checked out.

When I do:

git checkout tag1
git branch

I can\'t seem to find

Answer 1

git describe is a porcelain command, which you should avoid:

http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2013/06/checking-current-branch-programatically.html

Instead, I used:

git name-rev --tags --name-only $(git rev-parse HEAD)