Question: Cmder no longer highlights the current git branch?
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Description
Question
Cmder no longer highlights the current git branch?
What can I do to enable it?
Checklist
- I have read the documentation and made sure what I'm looking for isn't present, or is unclear.
- I have searched for similar issues, and either this question wasn't asked before, or I didn't find any that describe my question.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the missing current-branch highlighting in Cmder on Windows and compare the result with the attached screenshot. Read the existing documentation and configuration guidance for Git branch display; done means identifying how to enable it or documenting a reproducible bug with the relevant setup.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- git, powershell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100