Hello! I'm trying understand the proper way to acheive a git-decorated-prompt under cygwin.
When using git-bash in Windows, it automatically sets the prompt to reflect the current repositor branch when cd'ing to a folder that contains a git sandbox. To obtain this effect under Ubuntu, it was necessary to set the PS1 (prompt) variable in ~/.bashrc to the following: export PS1='\[\033]0;$TITLEPREFIX:$PWD\007\]\n\[\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[35m\]$MSYSTEM \[\033[33m\]\w\[\033[36m\]`__git_ps1`\[\033[0m\]\n$ ' This appears to work by using the aliases that the git package installs. Since Ubuntu is general-purpose and not for a specific use like git-bash is, it does not automatically set the prompt for you. For Gentoo, setting the PS1 variable in ~/.bashrc did not work, because even after installing git, it did not install its aliases in the profiles. So for Gentoo, putting the following line in ~/.bashrc made the prompt variable acheive the desired effect: . /usr/share/git/git-prompt.sh Now on to Cygwin. Even though I've installed git, the git aliases don't seem to be present, or at least I can't figure out how to get them set. Thank you for reading, and thank you in advance -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
