Terminal Tab reflecting your current git project name

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First, setup a git alias:

% git config --global alias.project-name 'config --replace-all project.info.name'

Use it like this (your CWD should be a git project):

% git project-name "NodeJS Latest"

Review the setting with:

% git config --local --get project.info.name

In your bash profile:

export PROMPT_COMMAND="echo -ne \"\033]0;\$(git config --get project.info.name || $PROMPT_COMMAND)\007\"; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

Your terminal tab when you are within a configured project:

Your terminal tab when you are not in a configured project:

Caveats

• git(1) is a requirement; however, this is simple to extend for other VCSes.

Inspiration

• http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031015173932306

Alternative Approaches

• https://gist.github.com/3874646

Thanks for this; I adapted heavily for a zsh setup, but use this happily. In zsh, the chpwd_functions array variable can hold names of functions to be invoked whenever you change directory (unless it's a "quiet" change). This lets me use local prj="[$(git config --get project.info.name)]" and then, if that's [], replace with prj=${$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel):t} to get the project.

Then check [[ $(git rev-parse --is-inside-git-dir) = true ]] to either set here="[git-dir]" or here="$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)" and just print -Pn '\e]2;'"git:${prj}:${here}"'\a'

I now use tmux heavily so this is even easier. I have the following in my ~/.tmux.conf:

set -g set-titles-string '#(tmux display-message -p "#S")'

This puts the name of the session into the terminal tab -- so much easier and does not rely on git (i.e. you may have not yet run git init or you may be using another VCS).