How to colorize branch name in output of “git checkout”?

Question

How to colorize the branch name (shown in bold below) in the output of git checkout ?

(base) dollaween $ git checkout develop
Switched to branch 

Answer 1

Color settings for different commands are controlled by the config variables

color.<command>.<slot>

You can see all available config variables with the command git help -c (see git config: list all variables and their default values ). If there is no variable called color.checkout.… then I think this is not possible.

The closest replacement I could think of would be to colorize the branch name in the output of git status .

For example:

$ git config color.status.branch red
$ git status
On branch 
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
[…]

The bold part would now be red.