You might also like: https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt Basically shows you 'git status' at a glance,

You might also like: https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt Basically shows you 'git status' at a glance, all the time. More for bash people: https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it (similar to ooh my zsh) https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#for-developers https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#for-developers PyCharm / any IntelliJ-based IDE, Atom, vim, emacs etc can also all nicely show git status of your current project. I'd suggest one of those as well in whatever flavor of editor you prefer.