--- /dev/null
+#! /bin/sh -x
+# List ways to get the current branch name.
+# Compare the output after "git checkout master" and "git checkout master~1".
+
+git branch --show-current
+git describe --all
+git name-rev --name-only HEAD
+
+git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
+git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name --abbrev-ref HEAD
+
+git symbolic-ref --short -q HEAD; echo $?
+git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
+git symbolic-ref HEAD