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# What Is The Current Branch?
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This question can be answered with one of git's plumbing commands,
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`rev-parse`.
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```
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$ git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
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```
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The `--abbrev-ref` flag tells `git-rev-parse` to give us the short name for
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`HEAD` instead of the SHA.
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[source](http://stackoverflow.com/a/12142066/535590)
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