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Customising Git Bash fonts and colours

Customising Git Bash fonts and colours

So I was researching how to be elite in Git recently and stumbled across this site http://durdn.com/blog/2012/11/22/must-have-git-aliases-advanced-examples/. Take a look at how sexy that font and colour scheme is! Man I needed it in my life bad!

So I did. This is how you can get this look and feel.

First we need to download the font which is called Terminus. This can be obtained here http://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/.

Download the pack that matches your OS, mine is windows… for now, linux is proper calling me at the moment :)

Extract and install the fonts.

Next step, we need those colours. I use this tool http://www.hikarun.com/e/ for getting to colours (as I am colour blind as well).

This gave me…

  • Background colour as rgb(0, 57, 70)
  • Text colour as rgb(116, 145, 151)
  • Blue Text as rgb(95, 175, 245)
  • Greeny looking commit id colour as rgb(210, 170, 69)

Now to apply this

  • Open up Git Bash and bring up the options by cicking on the icon in the top left.
  • Select the Background as rgb(0, 57, 70)
  • Select foreground as rgb(116, 145, 151)
  • Go to Text and select the Terminus font Bold and size 12

But what about the blue and green I hear you cry. Well here we can setup some new alias to have our colour scheme. See here https://github.com/johnnolan/jb-trunk-of-funk/blob/master/Git/.gitconfig I have converted the RGB to HEX and created some pretty print out log commands. This gives us all the loveliness we need. Add this to your .gitconfig.

ls = log --pretty=format:"%C(#D2AA45)%h%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%C(#5FAFF5)\\ [%cn]" --decorate
ll = log --pretty=format:"%C(#D2AA45)%h%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%C(#5FAFF5)\\ [%cn]" --decorate --numstat
lnc = log --pretty=format:"%h\\ %s\\ [%cn]"
lds = log --pretty=format:"%C(#D2AA45)%h\\ %ad%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%C(#5FAFF5)\\ [%cn]" --decorate --date=short
ld = log --pretty=format:"%C(#D2AA45)%h\\ %ad%Cred%d\\ %Creset%s%C(#5FAFF5)\\ [%cn]" --decorate --date=relative

Now in Git bash type git ls and see the colour scheme for yourself.

Done, so lovely! Of course this is just what I find sexy. Have a play, see what you think!

If you want to see my progress on using Git Templates for commit messages and my Git Alias settings visit my Trunk of Funk repo I have just started https://github.com/johnnolan/jb-trunk-of-funk.