Every time (every few minutes?) I was looking at my git versioned projects (all my projects?) I encounter myself in doubt:
Am I at the branch I think I am?
And there was I, issuing a “git branch” command to check it…
That is enough! I said.
Looking at the github guides I found this tip very interesting, so I decided to bettered it, and to publish as a tip here.
It will show in your prompt which is your current branch, when your current work directory is a git initialized one.
To use it, just place this line inside your ~/.bashrc or into /etc/profile.d/git-branch.sh or /etc/bashrc or even /etc/profile, the choice is yours:
# git branch
parse_git_branch() {
git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1) /'
}
PS1="\$(parse_git_branch)$PS1"This will give you a prompt like this one:
stockrt@jackbauer ~ $ cd Dropbox/stockrt/git/stockrt.github.com
(master) stockrt@jackbauer ~/Dropbox/stockrt/git/stockrt.github.com $Here you can see a “normal” prompt and then, when I enter one of my git versioned directories, a “git branchned” prompt.
Way cool.
