This has been the greatest long-term technical challenge of my life, off and on for years — 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. 🐥

Screenshot showing prompt in Terminal with current path and git branch — with path in blue and branch in red.