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

[Simon Albrecht]

On 04.06.2017 19:02, David Kastrup wrote:
> 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.

I did check for that: bash-completion had already been installed. But 
the solution was even dumber: Embarrassingly I didn’t have git 
installed… sorry for the noise ;-)

Best, Simon