Show git branch and status in Mac Bash

Question

I use the Github for windows client.The shell with powershell is very nice!

How do I implement it on MAC? Not only the branch name,I also want git status

Solution 1

I think ohmyzsh is my best choose！

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

Solution 2

Git itself has this: https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh

Usage sample:

GIT_PS1_SHOWUPSTREAM="auto"
GIT_PS1_SHOWCOLORHINTS="yes"
source ~/.git-prompt.sh

export PROMPT_COMMAND='__git_ps1 "\u@\h:\W" "\\\$ ";'

It looks like this:

The green name is the branch, the symbol before the closing parenthesis is the status.

Solution 3

vcprompt offers similar shell prompt for Git (and Hg, Bazaar and SVN). You can install it via homebrew:

brew install vcprompt

Comments

[Leigh McCulloch]

You need to put djromero's usage sample into ~/.bash_profile. By default you probably won't have one on Mac, so you need to create the file and then use the above verbatim (assuming git-prompt.sh is saved at ~/.git-prompt.sh).

[Nicolas Zozol]

oh-my-zsh is very intrusive for only this git benefit