git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

[PATCH] git prompt: Use toplevel to find untracked files.

From
CTCody A Taylor <cody.taylor@maternityneighborhood.com>
Date
Mar 13, 2015, 01:45 UTC
Message-ID
<20150313014332.11094.18357@catuvm>
>From 3e4e22e93bf07355b40ba0abcb3a15c4941cfee7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cody A Taylor <codemister99@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:36:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] git prompt: Use toplevel to find untracked files.

The __git_ps1() prompt function would not show an untracked state when the current working directory was not a parent of the untracked file.

Signed-off-by: Cody A Taylor <codemister99@yahoo.com>
---
 contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh b/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
index 214e859f99e7..f0d8a2669236 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
@@ -487,7 +487,8 @@ __git_ps1 ()
 
 		if [ -n "${GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES-}" ] &&
 		   [ "$(git config --bool bash.showUntrackedFiles)" != "false" ] &&
-		   git ls-files --others --exclude-standard --error-unmatch -- '*' >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+		   git ls-files --others --exclude-standard --error-unmatch -- \
+		     "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/*" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
 		then
 			u="%${ZSH_VERSION+%}"
 		fi
-- 
2.3.2
Message 1 of 1 in “git prompt: Use toplevel to find untracked files.”
  1. git prompt: Use toplevel to find untracked files.Cody A Taylor, Mar 13, 2015

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.