12 Apr 08 Useful Git Prompt
Here’s a snippet of bash script that I wrote to make my prompt tell me when I’m in a git repository and what branch I’m on.
And to my pleasant surprise, the PROMPT_COMMAND mechanism will respect color codes, so if you have your branch listings in git colorized, it will be reflected in your prompt.
function rfind { dir=$PWD while [ ! -e $1 ]; do if [ $PWD == "/" ]; then command cd $dir return 1 else command cd .. fi done rfdir=$PWD command cd $dir return 0 } function git_dir { typeset str rfdir="" rfind '.git' if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then str="{`git branch | grep '*' | cut -d ' ' -f 2`}" rfdir=`echo $rfdir | sed "s#$HOME#~#"` fi echo "$str" } function mkprompt { typeset branch branch=`git_dir` PS1="${branch}$ " } PROMPT_COMMAND=mkprompt export PROMPT_COMMAND
