From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:19:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Show the presence of untracked files in the bash prompt.
Message-ID: <20090721171952.GS11191@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090721171445.GA25762@bug.science-computing.de>

Daniel Trstenjak <daniel.trstenjak@science-computing.de> wrote:
> Added the envvar GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES to 'git-completion.bash'.
> When set to a nonempty value, then the char '%' will be shown next
> to the branch name in the bash prompt.
> @@ -156,12 +161,19 @@ __git_ps1 ()
>  			if [ -n "${GIT_PS1_SHOWSTASHSTATE-}" ]; then
>  			        git rev-parse --verify refs/stash >/dev/null 2>&1 && s="$"
>  			fi
> +
> +			if [ -n "${GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES-}" ]; then
> +			   local num_untracked_files=$(git ls-files --others --exclude-standard | wc -l)
> +			   if [ $num_untracked_files -gt "0" ]; then

Wouldn't using -n be easier here?

   if [ -n "$(git ls-files --others --exclude-standard)" ]; then

-- 
Shawn.