How do I determine what branch/tag I have checked out in git?

Question

I clone my source using git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/mediawiki/core.git w/. Then I specify a specific branch/tag by doing git checkout

Answer 1

If you use the bash shell, you can use __git_ps1 in your bash prompt to show this, for example:

[me@myhost:~/code/myproject] (master)$ ls

Download git-completion.bash to ~/.git-completion.bash

Then in your ~/.bashrc file, add

source ~/.git-completion.bash

Then set your PS1 value to something including $(__git_ps1 "(%s)"), something like:

PS1="[\u@\h:\w]\$(__git_ps1)\\$ "