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 sure when I am editing a file in NetBeans or Notepad whether it s tied to the master or another branch There s no problem with git in bash it tells me what I m doing

How to get the current branch name in Git?

To display the current branch you're on, without the other branches listed, you can do the following:

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

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~ Answered on 2012-08-27 12:33:46