Hi Martin, I use: git symbolic-ref --short HEAD in scripts. Not sure it's the best way, but it works 100% for me. Regards, Randall -----Original Message----- From: git-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:git-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of mdconf@xxxxxxxxx Sent: February 19, 2015 8:15 AM To: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Git Feature Request - show current branch Hello, To start with, I did not find an official way to submit feature request so hopefully this is the right way to do so - if not then my apologize & appreciate if somebody could re-submit to the proper place. I'd like to request adding a parameter to 'git branch' that would only show the current branch (w/o the star) - i.e. the outcome should only be the name of the branch that is normally marked with the star when I do 'git branch' command. This may be very helpful in some external scripts that just simply need to know the name of the current branch. I know there are multiple ways to do this today (some described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6245570/how-to-get-current-branch-name-in-git) but I really think that adding simple argument to 'git branch' would be very useful instead of forcing people to use 'workarounds'. My suggestion is is to name the parameter '--current' or '--show-current'. Example: Command: git branch Outcome: branchA branchB * master Command: git branch --current Outcome: master Thank you, Martin -- 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 -- 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