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Bad Habits of a New Git User
- simonblack 4y agoBranches The Bad Habit: “Oops was I on main for that?” I found somewhere on the Net one day a few years back, a small bash addition that includes the git branch on the command-line prompt if the directory happens to be part of a git repository. Thus: centrepoint [jvs] /home/jvs/wrk/njvtax [master*] > ^ ^ ^ [this part is the commandline prompt] < git > [final part] [ with HOSTNAME, USERNAME, CWD ] <branch> [ of prompt] The git branch is colored red (or your favorite color). The rest of my prompt is black-on-white, so the git branch really stands out to me. Directories that aren't in a git repository will obviously never show any git branch-name, as in: centrepoint [jvs] /home/jvs/hhnse >