Answer by dmaestro12 for How do I get the current branch name in Git?

Sorry this is another command-line answer, but that's what I was looking for when I found this question and many of these answers were helpful. My solution is the following bash shell function:

get_branch () {    git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | grep -v HEAD || \    git describe --exact-match HEAD 2> /dev/null || \    git rev-parse HEAD}

This should always give me something both human-readable and directly usable as an argument to git checkout.

• on a local branch: feature/HS-0001
• on a tagged commit (detached): v3.29.5
• on a remote branch (detached, not tagged): SHA1
• on any other detached commit: SHA1