# How to show current git branch with colors in Bash prompt in Deepin OS and any other Debian based linux distributions

#### Greeting

Hey guys. It's AC Alexandre Calaça here. How have you been?

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#### Introduction

The goal of this article is to demonstrate how to include current git branch and path into bash prompt.

This article is tested in Debian based linux distributions.

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#### Current environment

This is my current OS.

```apache
lsb_release -a
```

Output is something like this:

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1682738551792/c1f32e4b-f7d9-4fa6-91f0-02f838a1f3f2.png align="center")

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#### Open bash configuration

Open your file management tool and open `Home`. Press `CTRL+H` and open the file .bashrc.

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#### Include the following commands

```apache
export PS1="\u@\h \[\e[32m\]\w \[\e[91m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\e[00m\]$ "
```

The previous command defines a new value for the environment variable PS1, which controls the format of the command prompt.

To be more specific, let's take a look at each part:

* `\u` expands to the username of the current user.
    
* `\h` expands to the hostname of the machine.
    
* `\[\e[32m\]` and `\[\e[91m\]` are ANSI escape sequences that set the text color to green and red, respectively.
    
* `\w` expands to the current working directory.
    
* `$(parse_git_branch)` is a command substitution that calls the `parse_git_branch` function to display the current Git branch name.
    
* `\[\e[00m\]` is an ANSI escape sequence that resets the text color to the default.
    

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#### Test

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1682739039880/0308d736-2988-4671-98c6-daf15de86fff.png align="center")

IT worked like a charm!!

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#### Celebrate

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#### Summary

The article showed how to include current git branch and path into bash prompt in Deepin OS 20.7 and any other Debian based linux distributions.

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#### Conclusion

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