Re: __git_ps1_colorize__gitstring() in git_prompt.sh: colors are hardcoded?

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Oct 20, 2014, 14:45 UTC
Message-ID: <5445200F.1030003@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <5441524C.6040302@ulb.ac.be>

nathdwek schrieb am 17.10.2014 um 19:30:

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> Hello,
> 
> It seems to me that the colors used to indicate the repo's state in the
> prompt are hardcoded although the top comment says otherwise.
> 
> From contrib/completion/git-contrib.sh:
> 
> [83]# If you would like a colored hint about the current dirty state, set
> # GIT_PS1_SHOWCOLORHINTS to a nonempty value. The colors are based on
> # the colored output of "git status -sb" and are available only when
> # using __git_ps1 for PROMPT_COMMAND or precmd.

That should have said "... on the default colors used for the colored output of..."

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> [228]__git_ps1_colorize_gitstring ()
> {
> 	if [[ -n ${ZSH_VERSION-} ]]; then
> 		local c_red='%F{red}'
> 		local c_green='%F{green}'
> 		local c_lblue='%F{blue}'
> 		local c_clear='%f'
> 	else
> 		# Using \[ and \] around colors is necessary to prevent
> 		# issues with command line editing/browsing/completion!
> 		local c_red='\[\e[31m\]'
> 		local c_green='\[\e[32m\]'
> 		local c_lblue='\[\e[1;34m\]'
> 		local c_clear='\[\e[0m\]'
> 	fi
> 	local bad_color=$c_red
> 	local ok_color=$c_green
> 	local flags_color="$c_lblue"
> 
> 	local branch_color=""
> 
> 
> As expected upon seeing this snippet, the color.status.<slot> entries in
> the git config file do modify the git status -sb output but don't modify
> the colors used in the prompt.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nathan

The script could query config for these colors, but that would amount to 4 additional forks and "git config" calls each time a prompt is generated. If you want the colors to be configurable, you should probably rather introduce environment variables - or edit your copy of the script ;)

Cheers, Michael