Show just the current branch in Git

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I tried looking for a special Git command for this  but I couldn t find one  Is there anything shorter or faster than the following   git branch   awk         print  2

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You may be interested in the output of  git symbolic-ref HEAD   In particular  depending on your needs and layout you may wish to do  basename   git symbolic-ref HEAD    or  git symbolic-ref HEAD   cut -d  -f3-   and then again there is the  git HEAD file which may also be of interest for you

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I guess this should be quick and can be used with a Python API   git branch --contains HEAD   master

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In Git 1 8 1 you can use the git symbolic-ref command with the  --short  option     git symbolic-ref HEAD refs heads develop   git symbolic-ref --short HEAD develop

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I m using    etc bash completion d git   It came with Git and provides a prompt with branch name and argument completion

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Someone might find this  git show-branch --current  helpful  The current branch is shown with a   mark   host-78-65-229-191 idp-mobileid user-1  git show-branch --current    CICD-1283-pipeline-in-shared-libraries  feat CICD-1283   Use latest version of custom release plugin      master  Merge pull request  12 in CORES idp-mobileid from feature fix-schema-name to master --     CICD-1283-pipeline-in-shared-libraries  feat CICD-1283   Use latest version of custom release plugin      CICD-1283-pipeline-in-shared-libraries   feat CICD-1283   Used the renamed AWS pipeline      CICD-1283-pipeline-in-shared-libraries 2  feat CICD-1283   Point to feature branches of shared libraries  --  master  Merge pull request  12 in CORES idp-mobileid from feature fix-schema-name to master

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git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD master   This should work with Git 1 6 3 or newer

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With Git 2 22  Q2 2019   you will have a simpler approach  git branch --show-current  See commit 0ecb1fc  25 Oct 2018  by Daniels Umanovskis  umanovskis    Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 3710f60  07 Mar 2019   branch  introduce --show-current display option   When called with --show-current  git branch will print the current branch name and terminate  Only the actual name gets printed  without refs heads  In detached HEAD state  nothing is output    Intended both for scripting and interactive informative use  Unlike git branch --list  no filtering is needed to just get the branch name   See the original discussion on the Git mailing list in Oct  2018  and the actual pathc

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For completeness  echo     git ps1   on Linux at least  should give you the name of the current branch surrounded by parentheses   This may be useful is some scenarios as it is not a Git command  while depending on Git   notably for setting up your Bash command prompt to display the current branch   For example    mnt c git ConsoleApp1  test-branch  gt  echo     git ps1   test-branch   mnt c git ConsoleApp1  test-branch  gt  git checkout master Switched to branch  master   mnt c git ConsoleApp1  master  gt  echo     git ps1   master   mnt c git ConsoleApp1  master  gt  cd     mnt c git gt  echo     git ps1    mnt c git gt

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From what I can tell  there is no way to natively show just the current branch in Git  so I have been using   git branch   grep

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This is not shorter  but it deals with detached branches as well   git branch   awk -v FS           print  NF     sed  s       g

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