On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:08 PM, John Jendro <tacliat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes I know this can be done with sed & grep, but --current should be a > standard thing for git branch to have. I sense you're looking to get the name of the currently checked out branch, possibly for use in a script. In that case, you may want "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD" or "git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name HEAD" depending upon what you're trying to do. 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