Setting colors for ls in git bash on windows

Question

I have installed GitHub for Windows recently and am using the git bash prompt - the one thing that is bugging me right now is when I type LS all directories are listed in blue.

How do I change my git bash shell so that when I type LS the directories are listed in a different color to blue?

Answer 1

This is not specifically a git issue but more the shell that you are using. On MINGW32 using Git 2.9+:

1. C:\Program Files\Git\etc\bash.bashrc

# Uncomment to use the terminal colours set in DIR_COLORS        
eval "$(dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS)"

2. C:\Program Files\Git\etc\DIR_COLORS

DIR 01;37 # Attribute=bold; Text color=white

DIR_COLORS File:

# Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init
# string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes:
# Attribute codes:
# 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed
# Text color codes:
# 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
# Background color codes:
# 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white
#NORMAL 00    # no color code at all
#FILE 00      # regular file: use no color at all 
RESET 0       # reset to "normal" color 
DIR 01;37     # directory 
LINK 01;36    # symbolic link.  (If you set this to 'target' instead of a
              # numerical value, the color is as for the file pointed to.)

Also see the following posts:

• http://linux-sxs.org/housekeeping/lscolors.html
• http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man5/dir_colors.5.html
• http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_dircolors.htm

For older version of Git, the bash_profile in Git_Installation\etc folder got the colors to change:

LS_COLORS='di=1:fi=0:ln=31:pi=5:so=5:bd=5:cd=5:or=31:mi=0:ex=35:*.rpm=90'
export LS_COLORS
alias ls='ls -F --color --show-control-chars'