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 sure when I am editing a file in NetBeans or Notepad++, whether it's tied to the master or another branch.

There's no problem with git in bash, it tells me what I'm doing.

Answer 1

To display the current branch you're on, without the other branches listed, you can do the following:

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

Reference:

• Show just the current branch in Git (Sep 2009)