Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.
And if you are not scripting, then the completion script we ship (it was
originally done for use with bash but I was told that it also can be used
with zsh) may help.
Note that the completion script shows how to do this properly---if you
are indeed scripting, it may be a good idea to study it, but the gist of
it is:
if b=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)
then
echo "You are on branch ${b#refs/heads/}"
else
echo "You are not on any branch"
fi
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