Show which git tag you are on

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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 out which tag I m on  It only logs      no branch  master   Is it possible to find out which tags are checked out  In the above example  this would be tag1

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When you check out a tag  you have what s called a  detached head   Normally  Git s HEAD commit is a pointer to the branch that you currently have checked out  However  if you check out something other than a local branch  a tag or a remote branch  for example  you have a  detached head  -- you re not really on any branch  You should not make any commits while on a detached head   It s okay to check out a tag if you don t want to make any edits  If you re just examining the contents of files  or you want to build your project from a tag  it s okay to git checkout my tag and work with the files  as long as you don t make any commits  If you want to start modifying files  you should create a branch based on the tag     git checkout -b my tag branch my tag   will create a new branch called my tag branch starting from my tag  It s safe to commit changes on this branch

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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

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Edit  Jakub Narebski has more git-fu  The following much simpler command works perfectly   git describe --tags    Or without the --tags if you have checked out an annotated tag  My tag is lightweight  so I need the --tags    original answer follows   git describe --exact-match --tags   git log -n1 --pretty   h     Someone with more git-fu may have a more elegant solution     This leverages the fact that git-log reports the log starting from what you ve checked out   h prints the abbreviated hash  Then git describe --exact-match --tags finds the tag  lightweight or annotated  that exactly matches that commit   The     syntax above assumes you re using bash or similar

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git log --decorate  This will tell you what refs are pointing to the currently checked out commit

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Show all tags on current HEAD  or commit   git tag --points-at HEAD

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This worked for me git describe --tags --abbrev 0 Edit 2020  As mentioned by some of the comments below  this might  or might not work for you  so be careful

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