<p>We highly recommend you use the <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=blob_plain;f=contrib/completion/git-completion.bash;hb=master">git completion</a> file from the contrib dir in git, and put <code>\$(__git_ps1 " %s")</code> somewhere in the PS1 in your .bashrc file, like in <a href="http://gist.github.com/151759">this gist</a>:</p> <script src="http://gist.github.com/151759.js"></script><p>If you would like a simpler solution, drop the contents of <a href="http://gist.github.com/5129">this gist</a> into your .bashrc file (of course, edit as you see fit).</p> <script src="http://gist.github.com/5129.js"></script><p>There is also <a href="http://github.com/lvv/git-prompt/">more advanced git prompt</a> (<a href="http://volnitsky.com/project/git-prompt">docs/screenshots</a>), and a cool project for <span class="caps">ZSH</span> with something similar called <a href="http://github.com/bkerley/zshkit">zshkit</a> .</p> 2008-06-24T13:05:59-07:00 53 put-your-git-branch-name-in-your-shell-prompt 2009-08-16T21:05:44-07:00 12983