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Cat.git / HEAD on Windows?

I'm trying to see where my HEAD is referencing the current commit that my working copy is pointing to, and I've googled for an hour, I couldn't find anything.

what is the cat .git/HEAD

equivalent command in windows? Thank!

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How to try this:

type .git\HEAD


This is similar to cat on Linux / Unix.

Windows paths use the backslash as opposed to the Unix / Linux slash. The forward slash in windows is commonly used to specify a command line argument to a program

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You are probably better off not looking at anything directly in the .git directory.

This is somewhat more annoying, as some forms of the command work differently if you're in a separate head, but the following are safer and easier to parse normally (and also portable).



git symbolic-ref HEAD
git name-rev HEAD
git rev-parse HEAD

A character ref will output ref if it exists, but return an error if in a separate head.

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