Being a Mac user, I’m unable to work with anything that doesn’t have eye candy, even my terminal. So, I knocked together a quick bash function to prettify my terminal a little. It probably works in any bash or bash like environment with git installed:

Of course, being a programmer, the script uses Programmer Colours. Feel free to change them to something less eye-watering. If you want the same, add this code to the end of your ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile: