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

In 2019, I think git branch --show-current is a better command than the accepted answer.

$ git branch --show-current
master

(Added in git 2.22 release in June 2019)

It runs much faster as it doesn't need to iterate through all branches. Similarly git branch should be avoided too in the command prompt as it slows down your prompt if you have many local branches.

Put it in a function to use anywhere on command prompt:

  # This function returns '' in all below cases:
  #   - git not installed or command not found
  #   - not in a git repo
  #   - in a git repo but not on a branch (HEAD detached)
  get_git_current_branch() {
    git branch --show-current 2> /dev/null
  }

More context:

$ git version
git version 2.23.0