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[PATCH v2] bash: Match lightweight tags in prompt

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knittl <knittl89@googlemail.com>
Date
Dec 1, 2010, 13:17 UTC
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From: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:40:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] bash: Match lightweight tags in prompt

the bash prompt would display a commit's SHA1 when having checked out a lightweight tag. provide `--tags` to `git describe` in the completion script, so it will display lightweight tag names (as it already does for annotated tags)

Signed-off-by: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@googlemail.com>
---
version two of my patch, adding the missing s-o-b and extending commit message
the diff is still the same as v1
 contrib/completion/git-completion.bash |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index f710469..604fa79 100755
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ __git_ps1 ()
 				(describe)
 					git describe HEAD ;;
 				(* | default)
-					git describe --exact-match HEAD ;;
+					git describe --tags --exact-match HEAD ;;
 				esac 2>/dev/null)" ||

 				b="$(cut -c1-7 "$g/HEAD" 2>/dev/null)..." ||
-- 
1.7.3.2.334.gd1031



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