I use Ryan Tomayko's git-sh, a "git mode" for Bash that includes the branch in the prompt, and also adds the most common git commands as top-level commands (so

I use Ryan Tomayko's git-sh, a "git mode" for Bash that includes the branch in the prompt, and also adds the most common git commands as top-level commands (so you can type "checkout master" instead of "git checkout master"): http://github.com/rtomayko/git-sh/tree/master http://github.com/rtomayko/git-sh/tree/master