Answer by v.babak for How to get the current branch name in Git?

Get local branch name only:

git status -b -u no | awk 'NR==1{print $3;}'

Get remote branch name only:

git status -b -u no | awk 'NR==2{print $6;}'

and git status -b -u no | awk 'NR==2{print $6;}' | tr -d "[.']" to delete special characters from the output