githubteacher

To show your active Git branch in your command prompt, you will need to do the following:

• If you are on a Mac, you can add the code shown below to your .bash_profile file.
• If you are on Linux, you will add the code shown below to your .bashrc file.
• If you are on Windows, you probably aren't reading this because Windows provides this behavior by default.

The Script

parse_git_branch() {

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

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Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000