From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 20:35:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] completion: split __git_ps1 into a separate script
Message-ID: <20120524203549.GA2052@goldbirke>
In-Reply-To: <4FBD5CC1.3060701@tedpavlic.com>

Hi,


On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 05:55:13PM -0400, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> > There's no way git-prompt.sh can be sourced without modifications to
> > the script, unless you expect it would always be named
> > '.git-prompt.sh' and would be on the same directory, which many
> > distributions would frown upon.
> 
> So, again, seems like a good argument for building a git-gitdir into git
> proper. Maybe there are other utilities that could make use of it as
> well...

You mean a real git command, which does the same as __gitdir()?  I
don't like that, because it will always require 2 fork()s and an
exec() and would be slow on Windows.


Best,
Gábor