Couple typos:<p>"In the git-completion.bash file" should be "In the .git-completion.bash file"<p>"In the git-prompt.sh file" should be "In the .git-prompt.sh file"<p>Updating the permissions is not necessary.<p>Step 4 should also include adding<p><pre><code> source ~/.git-completion.bash
source ~/.git-prompt.sh
</code></pre>
Step 5 you can add "Run . ~/.bash_profile" or "close and re-launch your terminal"<p>Thanks for the tips!
That prompt can be really slow, as it runs `__git_ps1` multiple times (through several branches of the conditional, and then for the final output). On my git.git repository, running `time __git_ps1` takes about .085s. If I hit the "cyan" condition in the prompt, we run it three times, and doing `time eval "echo \"$PS1"\""` takes about 0.263s, which feels noticeably laggy.<p>Changing it to cache the result, like this:<p><pre><code> export PS1=$LIGHT_GRAY"\u@\h"'$(
g=$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")
if [[ "$g" =~ \*\)$ ]]
then echo "'$YELLOW'$g"
elif [[ "$g" =~ \+\)$ ]]
then echo "'$MAGENTA'$g"
else echo "'$CYAN'$g"
fi)'$BLUE" \w"$GREEN": "
</code></pre>
drops it back down to the .085s range.
I have a couple other suggestions:<p>1. Put your dotfiles in GitHub<p>2. Consider using zsh -- the completion is great, and it's easy to build a great prompt. I know prompts are personal taste, but I'm enjoying mine: <a href="https://github.com/hoov/dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/prompts/prompt_hoov_setup" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hoov/dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/prompts/pro...</a>
I'd also look at Mathias Bynens dotfiles repo.<p><a href="https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles</a>
Additionally to GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE the following are useful<p><pre><code> export GIT_PS1_SHOWUPSTREAM="auto"
export GIT_PS1_SHOWSTASHSTATE=1
export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=1</code></pre>
fish shell has some of this built in, such as the git prompt.<p>Here's a sample of my fish_prompt.fish<p><pre><code> function fish_prompt
set last_status $status
set_color $fish_color_cwd
printf '%s' (prompt_pwd)
set_color normal
printf '%s ' (__fish_git_prompt)
set_color normal
end</code></pre>