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 - [Stashing Untracked Files](git/stashing-untracked-files.md)
 - [Untrack A File Without Deleting It](git/untrack-a-file-without-deleting-it.md)
 - [Verbose Commit Message](git/verbose-commit-message.md)
+- [What Is The Current Branch](git/what-is-the-current-branch.md)
 - [Whitespace Warnings](git/whitespace-warnings.md)
 
 ### go
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+# What Is The Current Branch?
+
+This question can be answered with one of git's plumbing commands,
+`rev-parse`.
+
+```
+$ git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
+```
+
+The `--abbrev-ref` flag tells `git-rev-parse` to give us the short name for
+`HEAD` instead of the SHA.
+
+[source](http://stackoverflow.com/a/12142066/535590)