diff --git a/presubmit_support.py b/presubmit_support.py
index 00a29a2f0..0feba2c86 100755
--- a/presubmit_support.py
+++ b/presubmit_support.py
@@ -1922,10 +1922,14 @@ def DoPresubmitChecks(change,
         1 if presubmit checks failed or 0 otherwise.
     """
     with setup_environ({'PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE': '1'}):
-        if committing:
-            sys.stdout.write('Running presubmit commit checks ...\n')
-        else:
-            sys.stdout.write('Running presubmit upload checks ...\n')
+        running_msg = 'Running presubmit '
+        running_msg += 'commit ' if committing else 'upload '
+        running_msg += 'checks '
+        if branch := scm.GIT.GetBranch(change.RepositoryRoot()):
+            running_msg += f'on branch {branch} '
+        running_msg += '...\n'
+        sys.stdout.write(running_msg)
+
         start_time = time_time()
         presubmit_files = ListRelevantPresubmitFiles(
             change.AbsoluteLocalPaths() + change.AbsoluteLocalSubmodules(),
diff --git a/tests/presubmit_unittest.py b/tests/presubmit_unittest.py
index 9694b0c8d..1c4db0a56 100755
--- a/tests/presubmit_unittest.py
+++ b/tests/presubmit_unittest.py
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ index fe3de7b..54ae6e1 100755
         mock.patch('presubmit_support.warn').start()
         mock.patch('random.randint').start()
         mock.patch('scm.GIT.GenerateDiff').start()
+        mock.patch('scm.GIT.GetBranch', lambda x: None).start()
         mock.patch('scm.determine_scm').start()
         mock.patch('subprocess2.Popen').start()
         mock.patch('sys.stderr', StringIO()).start()