Re: ‘Know which branch we’re on’ on Ubuntu 16

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> finally I’ve managed to get Ubuntu 16.04 working, and copied all of my
> previous home directory including .bashrc. However, the ‘export PS1’
> trick suggested in
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/contributor/setting-up#configuring-git>
> with the following line in .bashrc:
>
> export PS1="address@hidden \w\$(__git_ps1)$ "
>
> doesn’t seem to work the same anymore: upon any command I execute in
> the terminal I get an error message ‘__git_ps1: command not
> found’. Can anyone give me a hint how to update this?

The manual also says:

    You may need to install the additional bash-completion package, but
    it is definitely worth it. After installation you must log out, and
    then log back in again to enable it.

-- 
David Kastrup