Hide username and computer name from Git Bash for Windows 10

Question

Is there any way to remove the username and computer name from Git Bash for Window 10?

I already checked this : https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu/issues/199

But didn't understand how to do that.

Answer 1

Follow the steps below:

1. Go to C:\Program Files\Git\etc\profile.d\ folder
2. Find and open the git-prompt.sh file in your favorite text editor
3. Go to line number 15
4. Replace the whole line with PS1="$PS1"''
5. That's it. Start/Restart Git Bash and you should see the username and computer name is gone.

NOTE: You can also hide the annoying MINGW64 text by commenting out the line number 16 and 17 of the same file. To comment out those lines just add a # to the beginning of the line. That's it. Now start/restart Git Bash and it should go away.

Answer 2

Better way!!

Follow the steps as mentioned by @Saabbir, with one big change:

# 👇 comment out the wrapping if-else block
if test -f ~/.config/git/git-prompt.sh
then
    . ~/.config/git/git-prompt.sh
else
  # 👇 leave the content uncommented
  ...
fi

Save the file, git-prompt.sh using Save As (in your editor) in this path C:\Users\{current_windows_user}\.config\git

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Explanation: You can see on line number 8 that it checks for the same file on ~/.config/git. So it's better to update the config file rather than the actual settings file.