A git prompt for bash

With git-prompt you'll hopefully never find yourself again in the following gruesome situations:

• Resolving merge conflicts manually because you forgot to pull your branch.
• or even worse, commiting and pushing to the wrong branch 😱

Install

Easy to install, just two simple steps:

Linux

git clone -q https://github.com/ezorita/git-prompt
printf "\nsource $(pwd)/git-prompt/git-prompt" >> ~/.bashrc

MacOS

git clone -q https://github.com/ezorita/git-prompt
printf "\nsource $(pwd)/git-prompt/git-prompt" >> ~/.bash_profile

Features

It's terribly simple:

• Current branch
• Sync status
• Commits ahead/behind remote branch
• Path relative to repository root

1. Seamless

Automatically turns on when you cd in a git repository.

2. Focus on your repo

Working directory in prompt is relative to your repository root.

3. Autofetch

No need to fetch anymore. It will automatically fetch your current branch every 10 (default) minutes.

4. What's new?

Automatically fetches when you cd to a git repository or change branch.

5. You're out of sync!

Alerts when the last fetch has failed.

6. Easy to turn on and off

Type GIT_PROMPT=0 or gitpr and voilà, you're back to your default prompt.

Here is the alias definition, add it to your bash options file:

alias gitpr='GIT_PROMPT=$((1-{$GIT_PROMPT}))'

7. Easy to customize

Just set the environment variables.

Options

Options can be set directly in the terminal or, if you want to set them permanently, define them anywhere in your .bashrc or .bash_profile file:

Parameter	Description
GIT_PROMPT	Enables/disables git-prompt (values 1/0) [default 1]
GIT_AUTOFECTH	Enables/disables autofecth (values1/0) [default 1]
GIT_AUTOFECTH_INTERVAL	Autofetch interval (in seconds) [default 600]
Force_Default_Prompt	Overwrite the default prompt as well (values 1/0) [default 0]
GIT_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY	Set with path to private key file if different than ~/.ssh/id_rsa, ~/.ssh/id_dsa, ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa, ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk, ~/.ssh/id_ed25519, or ~/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk.

Colors

Colors can be also customized setting the following parameters with \[ ... \]-escaped color sequences:

Parameter	Description
User_color	Color of the user field [default Bold Green]
At_color	Color of the @ symbol [default Purple]
Host_color	Color of the host field [default Bold Blue]
Path_color	Color of the path field [default Bold Purple]
Branch_color	Color of the current branch name [default Green]
Ahead_color	Color of the commits ahead indicator [default Green]
Behind_color	Color of the commits behind indicator [default Red]
NoSync_color	Color of the out-of-sync symbol [default Red]
Fetch_color	Color of the fetch... message (do not escape with \[...\]) [default \033[0;32m]
Git_color	Color of the git prompt indicator :g~ [default White]
Prompt_color	Color of the prompt $ [default White]
Prompt_error_color	Color of the prompt $ when the last command failed [default Bold Red]

Compatibility

git v1.9.1

Issues and bugs

Feel free to open a new issue if you find a bug or have feature suggestions.

Thanks!