What is the name of the cli tool that shows your current branch and changes you've made?

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  • Git

    Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

  • git includes git-prompt.sh which gives a pretty basic git prompt. Search for git-prompt* wherever git is installed on your machine. For me, it's /usr/local/Cellar/git/*/etc/bash_completion.d/git-prompt.sh on macOS and /etc/bash_completion.d/git-prompt on Linux

  • powerline

    Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.

  • powerline includes prompts for bash and zsh that include git info. (despite selling itself as a vim statusline, I believe you can use its shell prompts without using it with vim.)

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  • powerline-shell

    A beautiful and useful prompt for your shell

  • powerline-shell I think this is a shell-only fork of powerline?

  • powerlevel10k

    A Zsh theme

  • I'm personally using powerlevel10k

  • perl-git-prompt

    Git extension for the bash prompt

  • posh-git

    A PowerShell environment for Git

  • If you're on Windows, I've used posh-git in the past.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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