So the repo I'm working in is a selective checkout of a big repo. The server I'm working on has also seen better days. If I wanted to know what branch of a repo I was on, I'd normally do git branch -v, but last time I did that it took 3 minutes and 58 seconds.

Any way I can have just the name of the current branch a bit quicker than that? Surely it's stored in that .git folder somewhere?

CodePudding user response：

Another option is to use git status, which does show which branch is the current branch.