From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:21:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Feature Request - show current branch
Message-ID: <54E60D71.6050906@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <001801d04c48$732f9980$598ecc80$@nexbridge.com>

Randall S. Becker venit, vidit, dixit 19.02.2015 14:32:
> git symbolic-ref --short HEAD

That errors out when HEAD is detached.

git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name [--abbrev-ref] HEAD

returns the branch name or HEAD. Though it's a bit difficult to discover.

I guess git 3.0 will have "git branch" and "git branches" :)

Michael