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> One of the most important changes I made to my bash setup was to change my prompt to multi line, detect whether I was in a git repo, include the branch in the prompt, and also include a summary of git status.

Check out starship[1] if you haven't already. It's a prompt that does just this and more, and works across shells like Bash, fish, zsh, etc.

[1] https://github.com/starship/starship



Thanks! I will definitely check that out!




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