Question

I can’t even properly form it into a question, or even if its a problem. As a result of something (possible me, possible an update?). my terminal now looks like

drew@think$  cd drewPlay
~/drewPlay
drew@think$ (git::master) 

before the ~/path didn’t display and neither did (git::master). i’m curious what I have done to make this happen and probable how I need to fix what ever mistake this is highlighting.

Answer 1

Look in your .bashrc file for the PS1 variable – I bet it includes the __git_ps1 helper and begins with \w followed by a newline – something like:

PS1='\w\n\u@\h\$$(__git_ps1 " (git::%s)") '

… would produce the prompt you’re seeing. If that were the case, you could put it back to something more conventional by changing it to:

PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ '

… but __git_ps1 is pretty great 🙂