OS X Git Prompt
I’m currently using a modified version of git-prompt that looks something like this:
If you want to try it out, you can download this zip-ball:
Unpack that into your User folder, and add this to your bash .profile:
# Git Prompt - Modified from: http://volnitsky.com/project/git-prompt/ [[ $- == *i* ]] && . ~/git-prompt/git-prompt.sh
Tip: You can open your .profile from your terminal like so:
open ~/.profile
Note: You will need to start a new shell session after editing that file in order to see the changes.
I use Nano as my default bash text editor. If you want that, add this to your .profile:
# Use the nano text editor export EDITOR="nano"
And for the Terminal.app style:
The shell commands (copy-paste):
mkdir Test cd Test/ git init touch somefile git add somefile git commit -m "commit message" echo "hi" > somefile git add somefile git commit -m "second commit" git checkout -b temp echo "hello" > somefile git add . git commit -m "3rd commit"
Hi Shaun,
Thanks for this. I had quite a few problems getting it to work for me, which was frustrating. In the end I went into my Terminal/preferences/startup and switched the “Shell opens with” from /usr/bin/login to /bin/bash. Then I saved my .profile file (with modifications as above) to .bash_profile. Finally, on restarting my terminal, it worked.
I've never mucked around with bash so I was pretty much in the dark, and getting it to work is dumb luck.
In any event, thank you for introducing me to the GIT Prompt project; this is going to come in very handy!
Hmm.. I'm sorry to hear that you had trouble with it. I'm pretty new to all this myself. My Terminal is still set to /usr/bin/login. It might have something to do with how git is installed: port vs installer vs manually compiling it. Also, I should definitely have mentioned that you need to start a new Terminal session after editing the .profile!
Awesome. This rocks.
Shaun, I'm in the process of setting up a new machine, and was doing all this again. This time I had few problems with the .profile, if I used ~/.bash_profile instead. Anyway, I did have problems with the script however:
-bash: eval: line 9: syntax error near unexpected token `||'
-bash: eval: line 9: `|| return'
coming from line 60 of git-prompt.sh. Now that's doubly weird because I checked the original source on volnitsky.com, and the only difference as far as I can see is that you've tweaked the formatting. I don't understand why this should throw errors for me, but not for anyone else?!
Any pointers would be appreciated. If not, I'll keep looking. Cheers.
It happens if you haven't installed git yet. :-S
Hahahaa! Gotta hate it when that happens!
I seem to remember that I changed the formatting in order to prevent similar errors – it's possible that the script contains strange (hidden) characters. I found that by stripping out a bunch of white-space (and possibly more) I managed to get it to work, but I left it at that.