How to find which git branch I am on when my disk is mounted on other server

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Our git repo is on a Linux server  I can be on the master branch or create a new branch that I can go inside and use   Our git repo disk is mounted on AIX box to build  I can see git directory in the AIX box that allows me to build   In the AIX box how I can see that I am using master or inside a particular branch  What changes inside  git that drives which branch I am on

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Our git repo disk is mounted on AIX box to do BUILD.

It sounds like you mounted the drive on which the git repository is stored on another server, and you are asking how to modify that. If that is the case, this is a bad idea.

The build server should have its own copy of the git repository, and it will be locally managed by git on the build server. The build server's repository will be connected to the "main" git repository with a "remote", and you can issue the command git pull to update the local repository on the build server.

If you don't want to go to the trouble of setting up SSH or a gitolite server or something similar, you can use a file path as the "remote" location. So you could continue to mount the Linux server's file system on the build server, but instead of running the build out of that mounted path, clone the repository into another folder and run it from there.

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git HEAD contains the path of the current ref  the working directory is using as HEAD

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Try using the command  git status

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You can look at the HEAD pointer  stored in  git HEAD  to see the sha1 of the currently checked-out commit  or it will be of the format ref  refs heads foo for example if you have a local ref foo checked out   EDIT  If you d like to do this from a shell  git symbolic-ref HEAD will give you the same information

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git branch with no arguments displays the current branch marked with an asterisk in front of it  user host   gittest  git branch   master   someotherbranch  In order to not have to type this all the time  I can recommend git prompt  https   github com git git blob master contrib completion git-prompt sh  In the AIX box how I can see that I am using master or inside a particular branch  What changes inside  git that drives which branch I am on   Git stores the HEAD in the file  git HEAD  If you re on the master branch  it could look like this    cat  git HEAD ref  refs heads master

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