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Re: current HEAD in bash prompt

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 18, 2005, 14:57 UTC
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On 11/17/05, Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk> wrote:
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> After getting a bit confused when having too many branches, and for
> people who don't mind extra forks and like too much info in their
> prompt, I've recently started using this:
>
> export PS1='!\! [\j] \u@\h:\w$(output-git-head-or-blank)\$ '
>
I did almost the same, but in .c (attached).
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