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Git is a unique and popular version control system that is used by most of the software developers to keep an eye on the changes made in various applications and stay connected with other teams on the running projects. It helps large teams working with many developers to synchronize all the work in one place without any problems using the best commands in Git.

Git consists of many dynamic features. Among them, branches are the main feature within a single repository. Developers need to work on various branches simultaneously so that they can later merge their work with the work of other teammates or with the work in the main branch or the original code of the main repository.

It is also useful when we want to change the current branch or merge some code from other branches of the repository into the current branch, so we should know the name and path of the branch to do this successfully.

In this article, we will learn how to determine the current branch we are on in the remote repository. Let us explain this concept in the following area.

Use the git branch command to determine the current branch

The process of determining which branch we are working on can be accomplished with the popular Git commands git branch.

If we execute the command git branchwithout passing any options, the output will consist of all local branches. The current branch will be on the top line of the same repository with an asterisk ( *) in front of its name and in a different color:

$ git branch

The output of the above Git command will be similar to what is mentioned below:

  test/new
  test/test-actions
* master
  new-branch

Here, we can see that our current branch is the master branch, with *a sign in front of the branch name.

In Git 2.22 version, –show-currentthe option was introduced to shorten the process of determining the current Git branch. With the help of this option, we can directly get the current branch name in a few seconds.

Use the git status command to determine the current branch

Another command to query the current branch is in Git git status. It is also a widely used command to show our current branch and so on.

Let's look at the following command:

$ git status

The output is as follows:

On branch test
The branch is already up to date with 'origin/test'.

In this output, we can see that we are on the master branch. This clearly shows that the first line shows the result we need, and then if we set anything, another line shows our upstream branch.

So, in the above paragraphs, we have learned how to know the current working branch of a project in the remote repository.