Sometimes it’s very useful to know which git branch you are working on right from the command prompt. There are many solutions out there, but most of them include python and some awk or grep magic which can time a serious amount of time when you cd into a reasonably large git tree.<\/p>\n
But you can also take advantage of the This setting helps you keep track of which branch you are in at a given time. If you are in a git working directory, it shows the current branch as part of the prompt:<\/p>\n If you do not have the bash-completion<\/strong><\/a> package installed, you must manually source the git completion script prior to using to You might also want to display when there are changes in your work tree or the git index:<\/p>\n To do so, simply add these lines in your See the comments at the beginning of Sometimes it’s very useful to know which git branch you are working on right from the command prompt. There are many solutions out there, but most of them include python and some awk or grep magic which can time a serious amount of time when you cd into a reasonably large git tree. But you can also take advantage of… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,7,36],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bash","tag-fedora","tag-git"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}__git_ps1<\/code> function, provided by \/etc\/bash_completion.d\/git<\/code> in the git package. Add this line to ~\/.bashrc<\/code><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\r\nexport PS1='[\\u@\\h \\W$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")]\\$ '\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n[user@host directory-name (master)]$ \r\n<\/pre>\n
__git_ps1()<\/code>. To do this, add <\/p>\n\r\nsource \/etc\/bash_completion.d\/git\r\n<\/pre>\n
~\/.bashrc<\/code>.<\/p>\n\r\n[user@host directory-name (master*)]$ \r\n[user@host directory-name (master+)]$ \r\n[user@host directory-name (master%)]$ \r\n<\/pre>\n
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~\/.bashrc<\/code>, right before the line modifying your prompt:<\/p>\n\r\nexport GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=true\r\nexport GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=true\r\n<\/pre>\n
\/etc\/bash_completion.d\/git<\/code> for more details. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"