Show current branch on terminal - visual-studio-code

Question

Is there any way to show in Terminal of VS Code to show in brackets current branch? I saw it somewhere but not sure how it can be done. By some extension or whatever..
C:/myUser/project> git status
I would like to see it something like:
C:/myUser/project>(master) git status

Answer 1

Open zshrc file
open ~/.zshrc
Add this text in the end of zshrc file
autoload -Uz vcs_info
precmd() { vcs_info }
zstyle ':vcs_info:git:*' formats 'on branch %b'
setopt PROMPT_SUBST
PROMPT='%n in ${PWD/#$HOME/~} ${vcs_info_msg_0_} > '
Source zshrc file
source ~/.zshrc

Answer 2

For Linux Terminal
You can modify the PS1 variable. PS1 is a Bash Environment Variable that represents the primary prompt string which is displayed when the shell is ready.
You can achieve your result by modifying this variable with a script.
First, get the output of your current value of the variable by running
$ echo $PS1
Sample output:[\u#\h \W]$
Now you save the following code in a bash file(Remember to replace the initial string of export PS1 with the output of the above command).
#!/bin/bash
source ~/.bashrc
get_cur_branch() {
git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
}
export PS1="[\u#\h \W]\$(get_cur_branch)\$ "
Let's say path of the file is "/home/samar/Documents/my_vs_script.sh"
Now change your VS code settings by adding the following lines in 'settings.json'
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.linux": [
"--init-file",
"/home/samar/Documents/my_vs_script.sh"
]
Now each time you open a new terminal in VS code, script file "my_vs_script.sh" will execute and you get the desired output.
For Windows-Powershell
The solution above works well for the Linux terminal. But if you want to do it for another command-line shell-like Powershell, you can change the 'setting.json' to
{
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.windows": [
"-NoExit",
"-Command", "c:/scripts/myscript.ps1"
]
}
where 'myscript.ps1' must have a function 'prompt' definition to add git branch to your prompt.
You can refer this question for your 'myscript.ps1' code.
You don't need to change 'Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1'. Defining it in another file works too.
I hope it helps.