bash-powerline-ng

Powerline for Bash in pure Bash script. Forked from https://github.com/riobard/bash-powerline

Features

• Git branch: display current git branch name, or short SHA1 hash when the head is detached
• Git branch: background color reflects uncommited changes
• Git branch: display "⇡" symbol and the difference in the number of commits when the current branch is ahead of remote (see screenshot)
• Git branch: display "⇣" symbol and the difference in the number of commits when the current branch is behind of remote (see screenshot)
• Platform-dependent prompt symbol for OS X and Linux (see screenshots)
• Color code for the previously failed command
• Fast execution (no noticable delay)
• No need for patched fonts

Installation

Download the Bash script

wget -O ~/.bash-powerline-ng.sh https://raw.github.com/z4ziggy/bash-powerline-ng/master/bash-powerline-ng.sh

And source it in your .bashrc

source ~/.bash-powerline-ng.sh

Why

Because bash-powerline is great, but I wanted it to look nicer.

For everything else, please check the original bash-powerline project