Brent Simmons

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This has been the greatest long-term technical challenge of my life, off and on for years โ€” but I finally figured out how to get my shell prompt to 1) show me the current git branch 2) in color. Whew!

I gave the path a color too, since I was on a roll. Extra credit, gold star for me. ๐Ÿฅ

Screenshot showing prompt in Terminal with current path and git branch โ€” with path in blue and branch in red.