On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I use "git branch" when I need to know the current branch. But I have > many branches, looking for the star is "time consuming". I'd rather > have something like pwd, just print the current branch name and that's > all. A bit more information about current branch wouldn't hurt, as > long as the branch name is printed at a fixed location. > > What command do you use to know what branch you are on? Doesn't everyone who's anyone put it in their prompt with the bash completion script? :-) Well, if not, how about a simple alias: pwb = rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD ? j. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html