Show your git branch in terminal

August 10, 2011 by Brian Kenny

Kick ass way to show your git branch in your terminal window:

To do this, simply edit your bash profile with

vim ~/.bash_profile

Then add these lines to it:

function parse_git_branch {
ref=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null) || return
echo “(“${ref#refs/heads/}”)”
}

RED=”\[\033[0;31m\]”
YELLOW=”\[\033[0;33m\]”
GREEN=”\[\033[0;32m\]”

PS1=”$RED\$(date +%H:%M) \w$YELLOW \$(parse_git_branch)$GREEN\$ “


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