Cygwin: color coding and branch info for git?

git bash cygwin git-bash
Martin picture Martin · Aug 15, 2012 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

Seem to be having a problem because I just recently changed my client for the gitbash to cygwin but i am missing color coding when i do git status for example and also the bash prompt doesn't include the current branch / rebase etc

Does anyone know how to make cygwin look like gitbash? You maybe wondering why i changed, well i wanted more commands available :-)

surley this must be supported

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Answer

Lee Netherton picture Lee Netherton · Aug 15, 2012

It sounds like you just need to set up your .gitconfig for your cygwin shell to enable coloured output. Here is what I have in my ~/.gitconfig file (with which I get coloured markup in the output):

[color]
        diff = auto
        status = auto
        branch = auto
        interactive = auto
        ui = true
        pager = true

I think the most important line here is ui = true, which you can turn on straight from the command line if you wish:

git config --global color.ui true

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