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Changing Colors in Posh-Git
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Changing color settings in Poshgit

This set of documentation takes an assumption that Poshgit was installed using Chocolatey, which installs the powershell Modules in a different directory than the expected defaults.

  1. Navigate to the Poshgit Install Directory

    • [Chocolatey] C:\tools\Poshgit\dahlbyk-posh-git-9d624ca\
    • [Local User] %UserProfile%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Poshgit
    • [System] %windir%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Poshgit

  2. Right-Click on GitPrompt.ps1 and select Edit

  3. Between line 5 and 39 you will find all of the colour settings

         DefaultForegroundColor    = $Host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor
 
     BeforeText                = ' ['
     BeforeForegroundColor     = [ConsoleColor]::Yellow
     BeforeBackgroundColor     = $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor
     DelimText                 = ' |'
     DelimForegroundColor      = [ConsoleColor]::Yellow
     DelimBackgroundColor      = $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor
 
     AfterText                 = ']'
     AfterForegroundColor      = [ConsoleColor]::Yellow
     AfterBackgroundColor      = $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor
 
     BranchForegroundColor       = [ConsoleColor]::Cyan
     BranchBackgroundColor       = $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor
     BranchAheadForegroundColor  = [ConsoleColor]::Green
     BranchAheadBackgroundColor  = $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor
     BranchBehindForegroundColor = [ConsoleColor]::Red
     BranchBehindBackgroundColor = $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor
     BranchBehindAndAheadForegroundColor = [ConsoleColor]::Yellow
     BranchBehindAndAheadBackgroundColor = $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor
 
     BeforeIndexText           = ""
     BeforeIndexForegroundColor= [ConsoleColor]::DarkGreen
     BeforeIndexBackgroundColor= $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor
 
     IndexForegroundColor      = [ConsoleColor]::DarkGreen
     IndexBackgroundColor      = $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor
 
     WorkingForegroundColor    = [ConsoleColor]::DarkRed
     WorkingBackgroundColor    = $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor
 
     UntrackedText             = ' !'
     UntrackedForegroundColor  = [ConsoleColor]::DarkRed
     UntrackedBackgroundColor  = $Host.UI.RawUI.BackgroundColor

  4. Here us a description of each of the foreground colours:

    Setting Name Description Default Colour
    BeforeForegroundColor The first character added to the commandline when a `.git` directory is detected Yellow
    DelimForegroundColor Yellow
    AfterForegroundColor
    BranchForegroundColor
    BranchAheadForegroundColor
    BranchBehindForegroundColor
    BranchBehindAndAheadForegroundColor
    BeforeIndexForegroundColor
    IndexForegroundColor
    WorkingForegroundColor
    UntrackedForegroundColor
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rzippo commented Mar 31, 2018 •
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Should add a paragraph about when are changes applied.

@dikleins
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dikleins commented Apr 2, 2020

I tried that but still see dark red output for not staged and untracked files. That output is unreadable.
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ulty4life commented Jul 22, 2021

You can edit the posh-git files to achieve this, or you could override the posh-git variable values in your powershell profile script after importing posh-git. This way you don't have to modify posh-git, and you can make your settings into a portable file.

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SkybuckFlying commented Dec 30, 2021

Is it possible to make the git commit hashes in git log --graph --all yellow/gold instead of white ?

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