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The posh-git-bash prompt, for Git, is a useful tool that shows information about the current status of a local Git repository respect to local and remote (e.g. GitHub) repositories; in this way, it's easy to see if the repository is ahead or behind, has uncommitted changes, is up-to-date, etc.

Git-Posh example

The posh-git-bash prompt is included in the PowerShell installed with GitHub Desktop software for Windows. This post describes how add the posh-git-bash prompt functionality into the Bash on Windows10.

If Bash on Windows is not already installed, this is the installation guide.

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Note: Enable Copy/Paste in Bash

1. Right click in the Window Title bar > Properties
2. Enable Quick Edit Mode
3. Copy is Ctrl-C and Paste is Right-click

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Adding posh-git-bash prompt to Bash on Windows

1. Run Bash and go to HOME directory in bash

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   $ cd ~

2. Download the file git-prompt.sh from this repository, and rename it as .git-prompt.sh

   1	~$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lyze/posh-git-sh/master/git-prompt.sh -O .git-prompt.sh

3. Now you need to edit your the file ~/.bashrc Add the following 2 lines at the beginning of ~/.bashrc file, you can use the text editors nano or vim for this.

   1 2	source ~/.git-prompt.sh PROMPT_COMMAND='__posh_git_ps1 "\u@\h:\w" "\\\$ ";'$PROMPT_COMMAND

4. Restart Bash