Re: [PATCH] make __git_ps1 accept a third parameter in pcmode

>> Every time I looked at this line, I wondered why '*' state is
>> "bad".  Does a user go into any "bad" state by having a dirty
>> working tree?  Same for untracked ($u) and detached.  These are all
>> perfectly normal part of a workflow, so while choice of red may be
>> fine to attract attention, calling it "bad" sounds misguided.
>
> Well, I'm most often a really casual user of git and to make this
> function work the way I want to, I found out by trial-and-error
> that this was a way to test whether it's time to colour the string
> red or green ;-)
>
> I'm very open to better ways to determine the colour
> modes. Anyway, the colours are now more or less the same as what
> git itself uses when printing the status with colour hints in git
> status.