Colored zsh prompt with git support

A simple way to create a simple colored prompt with git support which may look like this:

TL;DR

1. If the folder ~/.zsh/ doesn’t exist yet, run mkdir ~/.zsh to create it.
2. Run git clone git@github.com:olivierverdier/zsh-git-prompt.git ~/.zsh/zsh-git-prompt

3. Add the following at the top of your ~/.zshrc file

   # --- Configure zsh prompt ---
   source ~/.zsh/zsh-git-prompt/zshrc.sh
   PROMPT='%B%F{9}%n%F{reset}🐒 :%F{10}%C%F{reset}%b $(git_super_status) %# '

Instructions with a bit more context

Follow these instructions on a unix system (like OSX on a Mac) in a zsh shell 😉:

1. Get zsh-git-prompt

   Clone the zsh-git-prompt repository into the folder ~/.zsh/zsh-git-prompt (~ denotes the home directory).

2. Add the following at the top of ~/.zshrc:

   source ~/.zsh/zsh-git-prompt/zshrc.sh

3. Configure the colors

   Right below the line source ~/.zsh/zsh-git-prompt/zshrc.sh in my .zshrc file I add

   PROMPT='%B%F{9}%n%F{reset}🐒 :%F{10}%C%F{reset}%b $(git_super_status) %# '

   Notes:

   • I picked colors red (F{9}) and green (F{10})
   • I like emojis 😅. Do you want to keep the 🐒?

   • Run the following to view all 256 possible color values:

     for i in {1..256}; do print -P "%F{$i}Color : $i"; done;

     This should give you the following output (first few lines):

     

   • To adapt the colors, change the numbers, e.g. change %F{9} to %F{5} for a pink color.
   • Whatever is in-between %F{your_color} and %F{reset} takes on the chosen color your_color.
   • %F{reset} is important to reset the colors. Otherwise everything that followsf would keep the color set in %F{your_color}
   • This StackOverFlow reply made me learn about this.

Alternatives

• Oh My Zsh is the most popular alternative but all of the possible configurations and plugins overwhelmed me a bit. I like the simplicity of this approach.