It's considered good practice to create feature branches in git when working on new functionality. The problem with this is that knowing which branch you are in is not obvious. Pasting the following into your .bashrc file will display the current branch in your prompt.
function parse_git_branch {
git branch --no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
}
function proml {
local BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]"
local RED="\[\033[0;31m\]"
local LIGHT_RED="\[\033[1;31m\]"
local GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
local LIGHT_GREEN="\[\033[1;32m\]"
local WHITE="\[\033[1;37m\]"
local LIGHT_GRAY="\[\033[0;37m\]"
case $TERM in
xterm*)
TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007\]'
;;
*)
TITLEBAR=""
;;
esac
PS1="${TITLEBAR}\
\u@\h:\w$WHITE\$(parse_git_branch)\
$LIGHT_GRAY> "
PS2='> '
PS4='+ '
}
proml
