A small shell function that adds the current git branch (if present) to the terminal emulator window title.

Requirements

• Git v2.2 or higher
• Any supported terminal emulator
• Any supported shell interpreter

Quick Start

Configuration may vary depending on the user's OS, terminal emulator, and shell interpreter. But in most cases, the following command should be enough:

$ source branch-win-title.sh

You may also want to add this line to your shell configuration file e.g. .profile, .bashrc, .zshrc, etc.

Shell interpreter support

• bash
• zsh

Terminal Emulator support

Tested on the following terminal emulators:

• Alacritty
• iTerm2
• Gnome Terminal
• Guake

Additional configuration

Powerline

The branch-win-title.sh script must be loaded first before configuring powerline otherwise it will override the powerline-generated shell prompt.

Guake

Enable the following settings under Main Window:

• Show tab bar
• Use VTE titles for tab names

iTerm2

Enable the following settings under Preferences > Profiles:

• Terminal may set tab/window title

Tmux

Add the following entries to .tmux.conf:

set-option -g set-titles on
set-option -g set-titles-string "#T"
set-option -g automatic-rename on

Demo