pretty-git-for-bash

Add a pretty git prompt and some git aliases to your bash. It does mostly the same as git bash prompt (ie. link)

Installation

clone this repository to your home directory.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/cdue/pretty-git-for-bash.git

Then edit your .bashrc and add the following line: source ~/pretty-git-for-bash/bash_pretty_git

Then restart your session, or type the following command line: source ~/.bashrc

And you're done...

If you experience some enoying latency, you can activate the "fast mode" (obviously faster but only display current branch name in prompt...). To do so, just add the following line in your .bashrc (before the line you added before): export PRETTY_GIT_FAST_MODE=1

then restart your session again: source ~/.bashrc

What you get?

• A nice colored git prompt looking like: user@host short-current-path (git-branch symbols) > where symbols (only available if you're not running in fast mode) are:

  • '¤': working on non clear directory (untracked files, etc.)
  • '>': local branch is ahead of remote by X commits
  • '<': local branch is behind of remote by X commits
  • '<>': local and remote branches have diverged

• git aliases:

  • 'git l' : decorated git log