With today’s PaSS offerings, you may find yourself in a position like I was. Let’s take the scenario of hosting an application on Openshift, but also wanting to store that code on Github. Historically, anytime you wanted to do a git push to both Openshift and Github, you’d have to submit two push commands. Now, you could write your own git alias to do that for you, but I recently discovered a better way to do this. (This also works if you are using Heroku)

After talking to a friend of mine Jeff Larkin about bash prompts, I decided to modify what he did into a single line bash prompt. By adding the following to your .bashrc you’ll get the branch your on in git (if current directory is tracked), a color denoting the status of the branch as well as the return code of the last command (if non-zero)