Changing Colors in Posh-Git

change-post-git-colors.md

Changing color settings in Poshgit

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	The character used to separate untracked changes from tracked changes in the current branch.	Yellow
   AfterForegroundColor	This is the last characted added to the commandline when a `.git` directory is detected	Yellow
   BranchForegroundColor	This is the colour which identifies your current branch	Cyan
   BranchAheadForegroundColor	This is the colour which identifies your current branch is ahead of any/all remote repositories	Green
   BranchBehindForegroundColor	This is the colour which indentifies your current branch is behind any/all remote repositories	Red
   BranchBehindAndAheadForegroundColor	This is the colour which identifies your current branch is both Ahead and Behind any remote repositories	Yellow
   BeforeIndexForegroundColor		DarkGreen
   IndexForegroundColor	This is the colour of items which are being tracked in Git's index.	DarkGreen
   WorkingForegroundColor	This is the colour of items which are in your working directory and untracked by Git	DarkRed
   UntrackedForegroundColor	This is the colour of the indicator to notify when there are untracked changes	DarkRed

I tried that but still see dark red output for not staged and untracked files. That output is unreadable.

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.

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