Current Working Git or SVN Branch on the Prompt

Posted Monday, February 22, 2010

This is a nifty tip I picked up somewhere on the Internet to show the Git or Subversion branch you are currently working in on the command line prompt, which I modified to include your stash level. I haven’t done a ton of serious programming under Subversion, but I know with Git I’m branching all the time (branches are so cheap in Git!). I wasn’t sure if I’d like the results before I tried it, but as it turns out, it’s even more helpful than I thought it’d be.

Edit your ~/.bash_profile to mirror the following functions. Of course, you may change the details of PS1 to your liking; it’s the \$(parse_git_branch)\$(parse_svn_branch) that’s important.

parse_git_branch() { git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e "s/* $.*$/ (\1$(parse_git_stash))/" } parse_git_stash() { git stash list 2> /dev/null | wc -l | sed -e "s/ *$[0-9]*$/\ \+\1/g" | sed -e "s/ \+0//" } parse_svn_branch() { parse_svn_url | sed -e 's#^'"$(parse_svn_repository_root)"'##g' | awk -F / '{print " ("$1 "/" $2 ")"}' } parse_svn_url() { svn info 2>/dev/null | grep -e '^URL*' | sed -e 's#^URL: *$.*$#\1#g ' } parse_svn_repository_root() { svn info 2>/dev/null | grep -e '^Repository Root:*' | sed -e 's#^Repository Root: *$.*$#\1\/#g ' } export PS1="[\u \w\$(parse_git_branch)\$(parse_svn_branch)]: "View Gist for DND (blog): git on prompt.sh on GitHub

And what you end up with looks like (in this particular case):

[BinaryMuse ~/repo.git/src (FIX-15013 +2)]:

Enjoy!

Michelle Tilley

From the mind of a geek

Current Working Git or SVN Branch on the Prompt

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