A git-aware bash prompt

A command-line executable that generates a git-aware bash prompt.

The idea is to extract most of the information you frequently need to get using git status, git log etc. and present it in your prompt.

Build and Install

This will compile and copy ps1 to ~/.local/bin:

stack install

Usage

Ensure that ~/.local/bin is in your path.

Have a look at the options:

ps1 --help

Put something like this in your ~/.bashrc:

PS1='$(ps1 ml)'

Change ml to sl for a single-line prompt

You can add a file called ps1.cfg to any of your git repositories. This allows you to specify another upstream branch to track if needed.

Example contents:

# https://github.com/apauley/ps1#readme
# This tells the prompt to display `Diverged from origin/develop` if needed
track-branch = origin/develop

Build the Executable using Stack within Docker

$ docker run -v ~/.stack:/root/.stack -v ~/.local/bin:/root/.local/bin -v ${PWD}:/ps1 -it --rm haskell:8.0.1 /bin/bash
$ cd /ps1
$ stack config set system-ghc --global true
$ stack install --allow-different-user