How To Display Current Git Branch Name In Terminal Prompt In Ubuntu?

Git and GitHub is one of the most imortant tool for software development. One of its great feature is branching/merging. Whenever I am inside a git directory, I have to run git status to see which branch I am currently working on. Contstantly switching branches is always confusing to me.

The solution to this is to have the terminal prompt display the current branch name.

My terminal prompt

Installation

First create a .bash directory in your home directory and clone the project to it:

$ mkdir ~/.bash
$ cd ~/.bash
$ git clone https://github.com/jimeh/git-aware-prompt.git

Edit your ~/.bashrc and add the following to the bottom:

export GITAWAREPROMPT=~/.bash/git-aware-prompt
source "${GITAWAREPROMPT}/main.sh"
export PS1="\${debian_chroot:+(\$debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w \[$txtcyn\]\$git_branch\[$txtred\]\$git_dirty\[$txtrst\]\$ "

Now cd into any git directory, current branch name will be shown in the terminal prompt.