Enabling Git syntax highlighting for Mac's terminal

Question

I miss the Git syntax highlighting I had on Windows for every \"git .*\" command like green staged filenames, some bolding, etc.

How do I enable Git syntax highlighting

Answer 1

I found this excellent blog post that explains how to set up your git colours and what the standard colours are. In summary, add the following lines to your ~/gitconfig file: (Here's mine - pretty eh?)

[color]
  ui = auto
[color "branch"]
  current = auto
  remote = white reverse
[color "diff"]
  meta = yellow bold
  frag = magenta bold
  new = green bold
[color "status"]
  added = yellow bold
  changed = green
  untracked = cyan

In modern versions of Git the colour.ui setting is now auto by default.

You can use the following as colours:

• normal,
• black,
• red,
• green,
• yellow,
• blue,
• magenta,
• cyan, and
• white.

You can also supply the following optional modifiers:

• bold,
• dim,
• ul,
• blink, and
• reverse.