Zsh Git Prompt

My ZSH Git Prompt

zsh is a great interactive prompt, however it can be a little tough to find solutions that do not rely on plugins or plugin managers like oh-my-zsh.

If you are looking for a portable zsh function for getting git status in your zsh prompt, here is what I am using currently (adapted from my bash git prompt):

This function gets the git status and branch - greps out a few keywords that I’m interested in and prints out some characters accordingly.

I like this because solution because it is simple and it provides a really good way to see the state of a repo at a glance.

I’m sure there are other ways to do this as well - you can extract way more detailed information from git, but this is good enough for my use cases.

Cheers!