Can I display GIT in prompt when current directory has/contains a .git folder?   Is there a way to do this?   My current prompt is defined like so:export PS1=[\u@\h] \w $ So, my prompt looks like this:[user@computer] ~/workspace  $And I want it to dynamically look like this:[user@computer] ~/workspace GIT $
Can I display GIT in prompt when current directory has a .git folder?
bash;git;prompt
The most standard way is to use __git_ps1 directly from git. In Ubuntu, it is available in this path:source /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-prompt## source /etc/bash_completion.d/git-prompt#PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ 'PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w $(__git_ps1 (%s))\$ 'You can notice the added part $(__git_ps1 (%s)), which will notify you about the current state of repo -- current branch, ongoing rebases, merges and so on.The file in Ubuntu is provided by git package:$ dpkg-query -S /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-promptgit: /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-promptFor fedora by git-core (with a bit different path):rpm -qf /usr/share/git-core/contrib/completion/git-prompt.shgit-core-2.5.5-1.fc23.x86_64Your prompt will change from[user@computer] ~/workspace $ to [user@computer] ~/workspace (master)$ 