Question

first time poster.

This came up in conversation at work this week…

Is there a way, when you connect to git remotely that you can get display current working directory/current git repo/branch in your terminal prompt?

Apparently, there are linux/vim scripts that exist for linux users, and I’d like to add this sort of shell script to my profile.

Currently I’m using some info from this page http://sos.blog-city.com/mac_os_x__bash_customize_your_terminal_prompt_a_little_color.htm to address some of this info locally.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Get a copy of the git completion script. You can get this from git itself, or if you have a Linux box handy you could even just copy it from there (it’ll probably be /etc/bash_completion.d/git). Then, arrange for this to get “sourced” by bash. You can do this by adding something like this to your .bashrc:

. /usr/local/git-completion

(assuming you named the file /usr/local/git-completion on your Mac).

Finally, you’ll want to adjust your prompt. Also in your .bashrc, add something like:

export PS1='[\w$(__git_ps1 "|%s")]\$ '

Here’s a blog post (not by me) that talks about this (and some other related stuff) in more detail: http://blog.bitfluent.com/post/27983389/git-utilities-you-cant-live-without