Working with Git and its great branching/merging features is
amazing. Constantly switching branches can be confusing though as you have to
run git status to see which branch you're currently on.
The solution to this is to have your terminal prompt display the current branch. There's a number of articles available online about how to achieve this. This project is an attempt to make an easy to install/configure solution.
If you cd to a Git working directory, you will see the current Git branch
name displayed in your terminal prompt. When you're not in a Git working
directory, your prompt works like normal.
You can also use tab to autocomplete your branch names
Simply
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bri0/git-aware-prompt/master/install.sh | sh -
Once installed, there will be new $git_branch and $git_dirty variables
available to use in the PS1 environment variable, along with a number of
color helper variables which you can see a list of in colors.sh.
If you want to know more about how to customize your prompt, I recommend this article: How to: Change / Setup bash custom prompt (PS1)
Below are a few suggested prompt configurations. Simply paste the code at the end of the same file you pasted the installation code into earlier.
export PS1="\u@\h \W \[$txtcyn\]\$git_branch\[$txtred\]\$git_dirty\[$txtrst\]\$ "Optionally, if you want a nice pretty prompt when using sudo -s, also add
this line:
export SUDO_PS1="\[$bakred\]\u@\h\[$txtrst\] \w\$ "Standard:
export PS1="\${debian_chroot:+(\$debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w \[$txtcyn\]\$git_branch\[$txtred\]\$git_dirty\[$txtrst\]\$ "Colorized:
export PS1="\${debian_chroot:+(\$debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\] \[$txtcyn\]\$git_branch\[$txtred\]\$git_dirty\[$txtrst\]\$ "export PS1="\[\033]0;$MSYSTEM:\w\007\033[32m\]\u@\h:\[\033[33m\w \[$txtcyn\]\$git_branch\[$txtred\]\$git_dirty\[$txtrst\]\033[0m\]\$ "To view other user's tips, please check the Usage Tips wiki page. Or if you have tips of your own, feel free to add them :)