Re: git-PS1 bash prompt setting

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 27, 2006, 06:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20061127065400.GA19174@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061126094212.fde8cce7.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> wrote:

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> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:27:07 +0100 (CET)
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > But there really is no good place to put it: most commands need a git 
> > repository, and those which do not, are inappropriate to put an option 
> > "--show-ps1" into. Except maybe repo-config. Thoughts?
> 
> What about just making it an option to the git wrapper?

I'm using something like this, and will be adding it to git-completion.bash tonight:

	__git_ps1 ()
	{
		local b="$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)"
		if [ -n "$b" ]; then echo "(${b##refs/heads/})"; fi
	}
	PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__git_ps1)]\$ '

it works very well...