[Insight-developers] Bash shell prompt customization

[Daniel Blezek]

Nevermind, I found it:

sudo port install bash-completion

-dan


On 9/27/10 2:42 PM, "Daniel Blezek" <blezek.daniel at mayo.edu> wrote:

> Anyone know where:
> 
> /usr/share/bash-completion/git
> 
> lives on the Mac?
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/27/10 2:38 PM, "Matthew McCormick (thewtex)" <matt at mmmccormick.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> I'm sure the experts already know this, but if you are using the bash
>>> shell, you can customize the prompt to show which git branch is
>>> active.
>>> 
>>> Here is what I added to my ~/.bashrc file:
>>> 
>>> parse_git_branch()
>>>   {
>>>   git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
>>>   }
>>> export 
>>> PS1="[\[\e[01;34m\]\W\[\e[31m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\e[00m\]]\[\e[00m\]
>>> "
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Bill,
>> 
>> This is a great tip.
>> 
>> Note that git already comes with some machinery to do this.  Here is what the
>> relevant lines looks like in my .bashrc
>> source /usr/share/bash-completion/git
>> export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u\[\033[00;34m\]@\[\033[01;35m\]\h\[\033[01;36m\]
>> \w$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")\[\033[00;34m\]\$\[\033[00m\] '
>> 
>> There are tips in the comments of /usr/share/bash-completion/git for using
>> __git_ps1.  There are a couple of customization available.
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
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