How can I display the current branch and folder path in terminal?

Question

I've been watching some of the Team Treehouse videos and they have a very nice looking terminal when working with Git. For example they have (something similar): ``` mike@treehouseMac: [/Work/test - feature-branch-name] $ git add . mike@treehouseMac: [/Work/test - feature-branch-name] $ git commit -m "Some feature." mike@treehouseMac: [/Work/test - feature-branch-name] $ git checkout master mike@treehouseMac: [/Work/test - master] $ git status ``` How can my terminal show me some useful information of what branch I'm on, with colors to distinguish bits of the data I want? Is there some sort of de-facto plugin I haven't found yet? I'm using Mac OSX 10.8

Accepted Answer

It's not about a plugin. It's about prompt tricks in the shell.

For a cool setup in bash, check out the `dotfiles` project of this guy:

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles

To get a fancy prompt, include the `.bash_prompt` in your `~/.bash_profile` or `~/.bashrc`.

To get the exact same prompt as in your question, change the `export PS1` line at the end of `.bash_prompt` like this:

```
export PS1="$$${BOLD}${MAGENTA}$$\u$$$WHITE$$@$$$ORANGE$$\h$$$WHITE$$: [$$$GREEN$$\w$$$WHITE$$\$([[ -n \$(git branch 2> /dev/null) ]] && echo " - ")$$$PURPLE$$\$(parse_git_branch)$$$WHITE$$] \$ $$$RESET$$"
```

I ended up using all the `.bash*` files from this repository about a month ago, and it's been really useful for me.

For Git, there are extra goodies in `.gitconfig`.

And since you're a mac user, there are even more goodies in `.osx`.

How can I display the current branch and folder path in terminal?

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