How to get the current branch name in Git?

Question

I\'m from a Subversion background and, when I had a branch, I knew what I was working on with \"These working files point to this branch\".

But with Git I\'m not sur

Answer 1

What about this?

{ git symbolic-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null || git rev-parse --short HEAD 2> /dev/null } | sed "s#refs/heads/##"