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Alex Pushkarev
Alex Pushkarev

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Ubuntu doesn't show git branch name in command line prompt? Simple fix

After one of the recent updates I noticed that Ubuntu stopped showing active git branch in Command line prompt.

It's annoying but, luckily, very easy to fix.

Find following in your .bashrc file:

if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ' else PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ ' fi unset color_prompt force_color_prompt # If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir case "$TERM" in xterm*|rxvt*) PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1" ;; *) ;; esac 
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And replace it with:

if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]' else PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w' fi unset color_prompt force_color_prompt # If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir case "$TERM" in xterm*|rxvt*) PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1" ;; *) ;; esac # get current git branch parse_git_branch() { git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/' } PS1="$PS1\[\033[0;32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\]\$ " 
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And it will work again!
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