Comments on: OS X Git Prompt

By: git on the command line « Ramblings

git on the command line « Ramblings — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:07:57 +0000

[...] shaun smith » OS X Git Prompt I’m currently using a modified version of git-prompt that looks something like… [...]

By: Hays

Hays — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:08:34 +0000

Awesome. This rocks.

By: shaun

shaun — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:10:56 +0000

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!

By: alecmce

alecmce — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:40 +0000

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!