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[PATCH] bash: offer to show (un)staged changes

From
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Jan 18, 2009, 00:56 UTC
Message-ID
<1232240184-10906-1-git-send-email-trast@student.ethz.ch>

Add a bit of code to __git_ps1 that lets it append '*' to the branch name if there are any uncommitted changes, and '+' if there are any staged changes.

Since this is a rather expensive operation and will force a lot of data into the cache whenever you first enter a repository, you have to enable it manually by setting GIT_PS1_EXPENSIVE to something nonempty.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
---

I came up with this after sending two incomplete patches on the same night, and really like it. Perhaps others might find it useful.

Of course it would be brilliant if there were a way to ask the kernel if a certain directory is cached, but I couldn't find one, let alone one accessible from the shell.

 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |   21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index f8b845a..36ea528 100755
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
 #       are currently in a git repository.  The %s token will be
 #       the name of the current branch.
 #
+#	In addition, if you set GIT_PS1_EXPENSIVE to a nonempty value,
+#	unstaged (*) and staged (+) changes will be shown next to the
+#	branch name.
+#
 # To submit patches:
 #
 #    *) Read Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -116,10 +120,23 @@ __git_ps1 ()
 			fi
 		fi
 
+		local w
+		local i
+
+		if test ! -z "$GIT_PS1_EXPENSIVE"; then
+			git update-index --refresh >/dev/null 2>&1 || w="*"
+			if git rev-parse --quiet --verify HEAD >/dev/null; then
+				git diff-index --cached --quiet \
+					--ignore-submodules HEAD -- || i="+"
+			else
+				i="#"
+			fi
+		fi
+
 		if [ -n "${1-}" ]; then
-			printf "$1" "${b##refs/heads/}$r"
+			printf "$1" "${b##refs/heads/}$w$i$r"
 		else
-			printf " (%s)" "${b##refs/heads/}$r"
+			printf " (%s)" "${b##refs/heads/}$w$i$r"
 		fi
 	fi
 }
-- 
tg: (7bbd8d6..) t/ps1-dirty-state (depends on: origin/master)
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  1. bash: offer to show (un)staged changesThomas Rast, Jan 18, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2009
  3. Thomas RastJan 18, 2009
  4. Shawn O. PearceJan 19, 2009
  5. Martin LanghoffJan 19, 2009
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  7. Mike HommeyJan 19, 2009
  8. Martin LanghoffJan 19, 2009
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  10. Martin LanghoffJan 19, 2009
  11. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.Jan 19, 2009
  12. bash: offer to show (un)staged changesThomas Rast, Jan 19, 2009
  13. bash: offer to show (un)staged changesThomas Rast, Feb 1, 2009
  14. Shawn O. PearceFeb 1, 2009
  15. bash: offer to show (un)staged changesThomas Rast, Feb 3, 2009
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  17. Tuncer AyazFeb 1, 2009
  18. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2009
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  21. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2009
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