Color UI in the prompt
By default, Git has no colors when displaying information in the terminal. However, displaying colors is a feature of Git that is only a configuration away.
Getting ready
We'll use the cookbook-tips-tricks
repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/dvaske/cookbook-tips-tricks.git $ cd cookbook-tips-tricks
How to do it...
First, we'll edit and add foo
:
$ echo "And another line" >> foo $ git add foo
Change foo
some more, but don't add it to the staging area:
$ echo "Last line ...so far" >> foo
Create a new file called test
:
$ touch test
The git status
command will show us the status:
$ git status On branch master Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. Changes to be committed: (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) ...
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