Question

I just recently changed my client from Git Bash to Cygwin but I am missing color coding when I do git status for example and also the bash prompt doesn’t include the current branch / rebase etc.

Does anyone know how to make Cygwin look like Git Bash?

Answer 1

It sounds like you just need to set up your .gitconfig for your cygwin shell to enable coloured output. Here is what I have in my ~/.gitconfig file (with which I get coloured markup in the output):

[color]
        diff = auto
        status = auto
        branch = auto
        interactive = auto
        ui = true
        pager = true

I think the most important line here is ui = true, which you can turn on straight from the command line if you wish:

git config --global color.ui true