Charles Brown

Charles Brown
Opensource Engineer and Devops Advocate. Converting caffeine to code.
16 February, 2017

Make Git Bash Awesome Again

Add some spice to git bash to help battle the cubicle blues.

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Add some sweet ascii art

Edit your ~/.bashrc file and add the following

cat << EOF

<insert ascii art here>

EOF

Spice up the prompt

This one is a little more tricky, but start by editing the C:\Program Files\Git\etc\profile.d\git-prompt.sh You will see a line that starts

PS1=

Edit this line to make whatever your heart desires. Here is a fun one that creates the shrug emoji.

PS1='\[\033]0;$TITLEPREFIX:${PWD//[^[:ascii:]]/?}\007\]' # set window title
PS1="$PS1"'\n'                 # new line
PS1="$PS1"'\[\033[32m\]'       # change to green
PS1="$PS1"'\u@\h '             # user@host<space>
PS1="$PS1"'\[\033[35m\]'       # change to purple
PS1="$PS1"'¯\(°_o)/¯ '         # shrug
PS1="$PS1"'\[\033[33m\]'       # change to brownish yellow
PS1="$PS1"'\w'                 # current working directory

Tags: bash, git, node, npm, windows