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 -- 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