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Getting the current branch name in Git
schedule Aug 12, 2023
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To show all the branches within a repository you can leverage the command git branch.
In the resulting output, the branch with the star (*) is the current branch.
To only retrieve the name of the branch you are currently on we can run:
git branch --show-current
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