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On 2025-08-29 06:25, J via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm trying understand the proper way to acheive a git-decorated-prompt
> under cygwin.
> When using git-bash in Windows, it automatically sets the prompt to reflect
> the current repositor branch when cd'ing to a folder that contains a git
> sandbox.
> To obtain this effect under Ubuntu, it was necessary to set the PS1
> (prompt) variable in ~/.bashrc to the following:
> export PS1='\[\033]0;$TITLEPREFIX:$PWD\007\]\n\[\033[32m\]\u@\h
> \[\033[35m\]$MSYSTEM \[\033[33m\]\w\[\033[36m\]`__git_ps1`\[\033[0m\]\n$ '
> This appears to work by using the aliases that the git package installs.
> Since Ubuntu is general-purpose and not for a specific use like git-bash
> is, it does not automatically set the prompt for you.
> For Gentoo, setting the PS1 variable in ~/.bashrc did not work, because
> even after installing git, it did not install its aliases in the profiles.
> So for Gentoo, putting the following line in ~/.bashrc made the prompt
> variable acheive the desired effect:
> . /usr/share/git/git-prompt.sh
> Now on to Cygwin.
> Even though I've installed git, the git aliases don't seem to be present,
> or at least I can't figure out how to get them set.
> Thank you for reading, and thank you in advance

Looks like the Cygwin git package provides only bash completions, not available 
zsh and tcsh completions under contrib/completion/, nor the optional 
git-prompt.sh, or other scripts available under contrib/.

You can curl -JLORSsZ or wget/2 -N from
<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/refs/heads/master/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh>

Other projects provide shell and git aliases and completions for better 
integration.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher  but when there is no more to cut
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