You have to enable the default_leftonly theme in your user configuration.

I tried to do that but I have no idea how to "change my user configuration" :(
I'm using powerline from source (doing "pip install --user -e /home/daniel/workspace/powerline" and adding ". /home/daniel/workspace/powerline/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh").

What should I change to get git branch on my prompt?

WOW I have just read the docs (https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/configuration.html) and understood! ( sorry about the comment above :S )

@danieltdt that documentation is confusing. I can't figure out which file to change (and what to change)

@DanielGGordon Either modify main config.json or make a local copy (into ~/.config/powerline) and change shell->theme from "_default_" to "_default_leftonly_"

thanx!

I have followed all the steps but still have this problem on Fedora 23:
powerline-status (2.3) installed with pip2 (python 2.7.10)
have both pygit2 (0.22.1) for python2 and python3
created user config in ~/.config/powerline/config.json which works coz i can see that it applies colorscheme. but git still doesn't work

{
  "common": {
    "term_truecolor": false
  },
  "ext": {
    "ipython": {
      "colorscheme": "default",
      "theme": "in",
      "local_themes": {
        "rewrite": "rewrite",
        "out": "out",
        "in2": "in2"
      }
    },
    "shell": {
      "colorscheme": "solarized",
      "theme": "default_leftonly",
      "local_themes": {
        "continuation": "continuation",
        "select": "select"
      }
    },
    "tmux": {
      "colorscheme": "default",
      "theme": "default"
    }
  }
}

Edited main config .json in powerline install root/config_files - still nothing.

For the people from google:

mkdir -p ~/.config/powerline
cat <<-'EOF' > ~/.config/powerline/config.json
{
    "ext": {
        "shell": {
            "theme": "default_leftonly"
        }
    }
}
EOF
powerline-daemon --replace 

This works because configs are merged

I agree that the documentation for customization managed to be verbose and confusing at the same time. I still have no idea where is powerline_root on my setup.

@xenithorb worked for me btw ^^

Are you saying there a master config.json of sorts? And ~/.config/powerline/config.json overrides matching keys?

The docs I was reading dont seem to efficaciously educate the json schema

I found some language on a website after googling for more info. I think this is how it's supposed to be done to get the user started with the base/defaults. Then can edit as needed

I happen to install with pip --user , so my bits are in ~/.local/ ,

note: ~/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/... in path is variable depending on your system configuration

mkdir -p ~/.config/powerline && cp -R ~/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/powerline/config_files/* ~/.config/powerline/ && cd ~/.config/powerline && ls -alF --color=auto

{
        "common": {
                "term_truecolor": false
        },
        "ext": {
                "ipython": {
                        "colorscheme": "default",
                        "theme": "in",
                        "local_themes": {
                                "rewrite": "rewrite",
                                "out": "out",
                                "in2": "in2"
                        }
                },
                "pdb": {
                        "colorscheme": "default",
                        "theme": "default"
                },
                "shell": {
                        "colorscheme": "default",
                        "theme": "default_leftonly",
                        "local_themes": {
                                "continuation": "continuation",
                                "select": "select"
                        }
                },
                "tmux": {
                        "colorscheme": "default",
                        "theme": "default"
                },
                "vim": {
                        "colorscheme": "default",
                        "theme": "default",
                        "local_themes": {
                                "__tabline__": "tabline",

                                "cmdwin": "cmdwin",
                                "help": "help",
                                "quickfix": "quickfix",

                                "powerline.matchers.vim.plugin.nerdtree.nerdtree": "plugin_nerdtree",
                                "powerline.matchers.vim.plugin.commandt.commandt": "plugin_commandt",
                                "powerline.matchers.vim.plugin.gundo.gundo": "plugin_gundo",
                                "powerline.matchers.vim.plugin.gundo.gundo_preview": "plugin_gundo-preview"
                        }
                },
                "wm": {
                        "colorscheme": "default",
                        "theme": "default"
                }
        }
}

Also Note: If the daemon is running, the changes made to ~/.config/powerline/* files will be prevented from taking effect until you stop or restart the daemon. Check to see if the daemon is running with ps aux | grep powerline , Either way, the daemon can be started/restarted with powerline-daemon --replace

This was the command that I needed.

powerline-daemon --replace

Thanks @xenithorb

Hi,

Is there a way to get extra information on git. I'd love to know if:

• my repo needs some commit.
• my git needs to be pushed on the origin.

I've seen this https://github.com/jaspernbrouwer/powerline-gitstatus#installation and I was wondering if such things already exist or not in powerline ?

No, you would need to use third-party modules like the one you mentioned.

Archlinux Bash Powerline

Everything is detailed in the official documentation. This comment is just a quick TL;DR for those who doesn't have time to read and/or are lucky to succeed with those steps.

Installation's commands

$ pacman -S powerline powerline-fonts

Create a per-user configuration folder

$ mkdir -p ~/.config/powerline/

Copy the configuration file

$ cp /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/powerline/config_files/config.json ~/.config/powerline

The python version is likely to change. Check your local path to see if it does match with mine.
N.B.: for us, Arch users, the powerline_root segment from the powerline's documentation correspond to that path. Worth mentioning.

Change the theme

You have to change the ext.shell.theme property from default to default_left_only.

{
  ...
    "ext": {
    ...
        "shell": {
            "colorscheme": "default",
            "theme": "default_leftonly",
            "local_themes": {
                "continuation": "continuation",
                "select": "select"
            }
        },
    ...
    }
}

Appy changes

powerline-daemon --replace

Or simply close and open a new shell.

Bash Powerline with Git status - Deepin Linux 15

(Debian and Ubuntu should work the same way)

TL;DR

pip install powerline-status

wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf
wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf

# NOTE: adjust fonts paths properly!
mv PowerlineSymbols.otf /usr/share/fonts/

fc-cache -vf /usr/share/fonts/

mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/

# add this to your .bashrc
powerline-daemon -q
POWERLINE_BASH_CONTINUATION=1
POWERLINE_BASH_SELECT=1
. {powerline-installation-dir}/bindings/bash/powerline.sh

mkdir -p ~/.config/powerline
# NOTE: adjust your {powerline-installation-dir} properly!
cp /{powerline-installation-dir}/config_files/config.json ~/.config/powerline

# edit ~/.config/powerline/config.json to see git status and branch name in prompt
    { ...
         "theme": "default_leftonly",
      ... 
    }

# edit "def __call_()" function in vcs.py (may require sudo)
# vcs.py location --> /{powerline-installation-dir}/segments/common/vcs.py
# change "status_colors=False" --> status_colors=True
# change "ignore_statuses=()" --> ignore_statuses=(["U"]) to ignore untracked files
def __call__(self, pl, segment_info, create_watcher, status_colors=True, ignore_statuses=()):

# FINISH! APPLY CHANGES!
powerline-daemon --replace

Need a bit more details? --> Gist - 10 Steps to Bash Powerline for Deepin Linux (Debian / Ubuntu)

Need even more details? --> Official Documentation

Besides powerline, you should alsopip install powerline-gitstatus , if you'd like to show git prompt in terminal. I also found a useful post on Medium for your problem. Although this tutorial is based on macOS, but I've tested his method on my Ubuntu18.04 and it worked! Hope this will help you.

I had trouble installing powerline-gitstatus with apt install in Ubuntu 18.04, maybe the repo is not maintained anymore. I didn't try to install it with pip though.

Another thing... in my .bashrc file I only added:

if [ -f /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh ]; then
source /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh
fi

Nothing about the daemon and this stuff:

powerline-daemon -q
POWERLINE_BASH_CONTINUATION=1
POWERLINE_BASH_SELECT=1

My questions are:
-Do I have to add those lines to my .bashrc file as well?
-Should I apt remove powerline and install it with pip?

Another thing... in my .bashrc file I only added:

if [ -f /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh ]; then
source /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh
fi

Nothing about the daemon and this stuff:

powerline-daemon -q
POWERLINE_BASH_CONTINUATION=1
POWERLINE_BASH_SELECT=1

My questions are:
-Do I have to add those lines to my .bashrc file as well?
-Should I apt remove powerline and install it with pip?

I installed Powerline-status using pip3:

pip3 install powerline-status
pip3 install powerline-gitstatus

Created these directories:

~/.config/powerline
~/.config/powerline/themes/shell
~/.config/powerline/colorschemes

And created these files based on various comments above:

~/.config/powerline/colorschemes/default.json
~/.config/powerline/themes/shell/default.json
~/.config/powerline/config.json

Added these lines to ~/.bashrc as queried above:

# Powerline startup
powerline-daemon -q
POWERLINE_BASH_CONTINUATION=1
POWERLINE_BASH_SELECT=1
source {{ powerline_location.stdout }}/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh

Note the last line contains a variable because I'm doing all this through Ansible.

Now my Konsole looks like this:

I'm also using Ansible to install the Powerline patched fonts, but that's outside the scope of this issue & question.