Answer by Kirill Zhuravlov for How do I get the current branch name in Git?

You can permanently set up your bash output to show your git-branch name. It is very handy when you work with different branches, no need to type $ git status all the time. Github repo git-aware-prompt.

Open your terminal (ctrl-alt-t) and enter the commands

mkdir ~/.bashcd ~/.bashgit clone git://github.com/jimeh/git-aware-prompt.git

Edit your .bashrc with sudo nano ~/.bashrc command (for Ubuntu) and add the following to the top:

export GITAWAREPROMPT=~/.bash/git-aware-promptsource "${GITAWAREPROMPT}/main.sh"

Then paste the code

export PS1="\${debian_chroot:+(\$debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\] \[$txtcyn\]\$git_branch\[$txtred\]\$git_dirty\[$txtrst\]\$ "

at the end of the same file you pasted the installation code into earlier. This will give you the colorized output: