Get branch name of commit hash in Git

quorten

2019-09-19

Categories: git  
Tags: git  

How do you get the branch name of a commit hash in Git? Easy, just run this one command:

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref <COMMIT>

And another way to know which branch is the current branch:

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

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