Bored with just black and white in your `git status`? Add some colour! Open up your global Git configuration file (it should be found in `~/.gitconfig`) and enter this into it: <pre class="terminal">[color] ui = auto [color "branch"] current = yellow reverse local = yellow remote = green [color "diff"] meta = yellow bold frag = magenta bold old = red bold new = green bold [color "status"] added = yellow changed = green untracked = cyan</pre> Now when you do a `git status` you should see some pretty colours. Of course you can change the colours if you want to. The accepted values are two of `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and `white` and optionally one of `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink` and `reverse`. If two colours are given the first is the foreground and the second is the background. 2009-06-12T22:02:37+10:00 65 true 2009-06-12T22:13:00+10:00 2009-06-12T22:19:42+10:00 how-to-colours-in-git