gerthing.blogg.se - How to get git for mac

To install posh-git-sh, first browse to the github repo here.

When that has finished, you also need to add the following line to your ~/.bash_profile 1

If you already have git installed, you just need to run: 1 Run the following command to install bash-completion: 1 Once you have Homebrew installed you can install bash-completion. You will get asked to confirm, and once you do Homebrew will be installed. To install Homebrew, simply run the following command in a terminal 1 In order to do this I had to install Homebrew. The first step I took, was to install git bash-completion. It turns out that someone has ported the posh-git repo for PowerShell into Bash: Posh-git for Bash.įollowing the instructions on the README, I had it up and going really quickly. So I decided to try to get it to work with bash, and I found that it was easier to get working than I expected. So if I can avoid it, I would rather not install PowerShell on the Mac, as it feels like it is cheating and just making the Mac more like Windows. While I think it is great that you can now install PowerShell on more operating systems than just Windows, I really want to get the authentic Mac experience when trying to use a Mac for development.

We can try and replicate the same functionality in bash.

To get this working on Mac, we have a couple of options: Having this information available so quickly and easily will speed up your Git commands by quite a bit. Have a read through of the README to understand what each of the numbers mean and colours and symbols represent. You can read all about Posh git and how to use it on the Github repository here. Here is a sample view of what it adds to the prompt: Posh git also provides tab completion for git commands within Powershell too. Posh Git is an amazing PowerShell module that integrates Git status information into the prompt within powershell. I want that same functionality on the Mac. Posh-git is a great powershell extension on Windows that makes seeing what is happening in git much easier. One thing that I found was missing was my beloved Posh-git. I have started installing various development tools that are available to get me going. This is the first time I have used Apple products outside of basic use in school many years ago. I have recently purchased a Mac in order to create some IOS apps.