This repo has a collection of dotfiles for setting up bash and git The color scheme assumes a dark background on your terminal. Features - Will give you a big prompt, if you don't like big prompts you probably don't want this - Git status in your prompt * tracked/untracked files * branch name * commit status - Put the return status of the last command in your prompt - Organize your bash history into the .bash_histories/ dir Steps to install: $ git clone git@github.com:MITx/dotfiles $ bash dotfiles/setup.sh This will create symlinks from $HOME to each file and directory If you have an existing dotfile it will be renamed to .<file>.bak