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:

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).