I have always had a problem of forgetting which git branch I was on and committing my changes to the wrong branch. The best way I have found to solve this problem is to have the branch name printed in the console prompt.

You can modify the prompt message in OSX by setting the PS1 variable in ~/.bash_profile

First you need to parse the git branch name by using this function

```console .bash_profile parse_git_branch() { git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e ‘/^[^]/d’ -e ‘s/ (.*)/ (\1)/’ }


Now you need to set your PS1 variable so that it shows the parse branch I added a bit of color to mine so I can see it more clearly.

```console .bash_profile
export PS1="\# \u \w\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $ "

Cheers.