Good trick; saves typing git status or git branch so often. Note:
it’s not very clear from the article, but the code for the prompt goes in
~/.bashrc.
I wasn’t interested in colors, and I’m fairly happy with Terminal’s standard
prompt (\h:\w \u\$), so I ended up with something pretty close to the
default:
parse_git_branch() {
git name-rev HEAD 2> /dev/null | sed 's#HEAD\ \(.*\)#[\1]#'
}
export PS1="\h:\w \u\$(parse_git_branch)\$ "
Which yields a prompt like
Pangu:~/programming/git/ratafiacurrant stilist[master]$.
The downsides are that it can get rather long (especially since I keep my Terminal window width to 80 characters plus scrollbar) and its placement can seem a bit odd.
