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Reputation: 755421

Setting colors for prompt in Git Bash on Windows

I've successfully played around with some of the color settings in the Git Bash on Windows - I'm able to set a few things, like the colors of the local, the current and remote branches in my .gitconfig file:

[color "branch"]
current = cyan bold
local = cyan 
remote = red

But what I haven't managed to change are the colors of the prompt - the username@machine at the beginning of the line (in the yellow rectangle in my screenshot), and the project and branch I'm currently on (purple rectangle).

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Is there a way to influence those, too? Which .gitconfig settings do I need to set to change those colors?

Upvotes: 24

Views: 22635

Answers (2)

Tomas
Tomas

Reputation: 3446

I recently discovered, that in .bashrc file located in your user folder, there is part of script:

# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
#force_color_prompt=yes

that when uncommented, will add to PS1 variable the bit of colors:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

otherwise, plain prompt is set.

In general, I'd suggest to see what's happening in this script, as it's a final configuration step in launching Git Bash.

And extra tip, to apply changes without opening and closing the terminal, you can:

source ~/.bashrc
#same as
. ~/.bashrc

Upvotes: 0

Dennis Williamson
Dennis Williamson

Reputation: 360683

In your .bashrc you can set your prompt using the PS1 variable (which is likely set to a global value in /etc/profile or another file in /etc which may be distribution dependent).

Here's an example:

PS1='\[\033[1;36m\]\u@\h:\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;34m\]\w\[\033[0m\] \[\033[1;32m\]$(__git_ps1)\[\033[0m\]\$ '

In order for the command substitution to work, you need shopt -s promptvars which is the default.

This will output the user and hostname in cyan, the current directory in blue and the git branch in green on terminals that work with TERM=xterm-color.

See man 5 terminfo and man tput for more information about terminal controls.

Upvotes: 15

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