Customizing Git

Shell prompt

Instructor note

Here the instructor can demonstrate how a context-aware and Git-aware shell prompt can look like.

You can make your shell display contextual information about your Git state even at all times.

Here are few example projects that make this possible and easy:

• https://github.com/jimeh/git-aware-prompt (bash)

• https://ohmyz.sh/ (zsh)

• https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish (fish)

• https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt (bash and fish)

More useful “diff” output

Delta is a syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output. You can customize how you want to highlight the “diff” output. It allows side-by-side view, word-level diff highlighting, improved merge conflict display, and much more.