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		fictorial on April 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your Bash Prompt Needs This Hmm, I don't have this issue. Perhaps because I use a two-line prompt? `export PS1="\n\W\$(parse_git_branch) $ " parse_git_branch() { git branch 2> /dev/null \| sed -e '/^[^]/d' -e 's/ \(.*\)/(\1)/'; }`

Aissen on April 28, 2012 [–]

You use a custom git parse branch, while git has a much more powerful prompt function : __git_ps1 . It's readily available in git's default bash_completion.d file. It shows the current branch, but also the state of the git tree (during rebase, am, bisecting, cherry-picking, etc.)

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