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-rw-r--r--Functions/VCS_Info/Backends/VCS_INFO_get_data_git4
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c69774286..a0df4b107 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2018-08-24  Daniel Shahaf  <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
 
+	* 43313 (log message tweaked):
+	Functions/VCS_Info/Backends/VCS_INFO_get_data_git: vcs_info git:
+	For the branch name, try to find a symbolic name before falling
+	back to a raw commit hash.
+
 	* 43314: Functions/VCS_Info/Backends/VCS_INFO_get_data_git:
 	vcs_info git: Flatten a nested if.
 
diff --git a/Functions/VCS_Info/Backends/VCS_INFO_get_data_git b/Functions/VCS_Info/Backends/VCS_INFO_get_data_git
index a44a62c79..c3e62db3a 100644
--- a/Functions/VCS_Info/Backends/VCS_INFO_get_data_git
+++ b/Functions/VCS_Info/Backends/VCS_INFO_get_data_git
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ VCS_INFO_git_getbranch () {
 
     elif gitbranch="$(${(z)gitsymref} 2> /dev/null)" ; then
     elif gitbranch="refs/tags/$(${vcs_comm[cmd]} describe --all --exact-match HEAD 2>/dev/null)" ; then
+    elif gitbranch="$(${vcs_comm[cmd]} describe --contains HEAD 2>/dev/null)" ; then
+    ## Commented out because we don't know of a case in which 'describe --contains' fails and 'name-rev --tags' succeeds.
+    #elif gitbranch="$(${vcs_comm[cmd]} name-rev --name-only --no-undefined --tags HEAD 2>/dev/null)" ; then
+    elif gitbranch="$(${vcs_comm[cmd]} name-rev --name-only --no-undefined --always HEAD 2>/dev/null)" ; then
     elif gitbranch="${${"$(< $gitdir/HEAD)"}[1,7]}..." ; then
     else
         # Can't happen