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  <title><![CDATA[Vincent Cardillo]]></title>
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  <updated>2015-01-01T21:19:28-08:00</updated>
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    <name><![CDATA[Vincent Cardillo]]></name>
    
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Putting the Git Branch Name on the Command Prompt]]></title>
    <link href="http://vcardillo.github.io/blog/2014/12/11/putting-the-git-branch-name-on-the-command-prompt/"/>
    <updated>2014-12-11T20:32:00-08:00</updated>
    <id>http://vcardillo.github.io/blog/2014/12/11/putting-the-git-branch-name-on-the-command-prompt</id>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes it’s handy to always see which branch of the repository we’re working in. We can display this as part of the terminal command prompt by adding a few things to our local <code>.bashrc</code> file.</p>

<figure class='code'><figcaption><span>~/.bashrc</span></figcaption><div class="highlight"><table><tr><td class="gutter"><pre class="line-numbers"><span class='line-number'>1</span>
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</pre></td><td class='code'><pre><code class='bash'><span class='line'><span class="k">function</span> parse_git_branch <span class="o">{</span>
</span><span class='line'>  git branch 2&gt; /dev/null <span class="p">|</span> sed -e <span class="s1">&#39;/^[^*]/d&#39;</span> -e <span class="s1">&#39;s/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/&#39;</span>
</span><span class='line'><span class="o">}</span>
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</span><span class='line'><span class="c"># This will display the current folder&#39;s full path.</span>
</span><span class='line'><span class="c"># If you want only the folder name, replace \w with \W</span>
</span><span class='line'><span class="nb">export </span><span class="nv">PS1</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;\[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\[\033[36m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[0m\]\$ &quot;</span>
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</span></code></pre></td></tr></table></div></figure>


<p>And now our command prompt looks like this:</p>

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</pre></td><td class='code'><pre><code class='bash'><span class='line'>you@host:~/Project/folder <span class="o">(</span>master<span class="o">)</span><span class="nv">$ </span>
</span></code></pre></td></tr></table></div></figure>


<p>The branch name will always be displayed in parenthesis for us.</p>
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