How can I display the current branch and folder path in terminal?

Question

I\'ve been watching some of the Team Treehouse videos and they have a very nice looking terminal when working with Git.

For example they have (something similar):

Answer 1

To expand on the existing great answers, a very simple way to get a great looking terminal is to use the open source Dotfiles project.

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles

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Installation is dead simple on OSX and Linux. Run the following command in Terminal.

git clone https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh

This is going to:

1. Git clone the repo.
2. cd into the folder.
3. Run the installation bash script.