From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:56:50 GMT
Subject: Re: git-PS1 bash prompt setting
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP023A7249055A08208223F1AEE60@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <20061127065400.GA19174@spearce.org>

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:54:00 -0500
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

> I'm using something like this, and will be adding it to
> git-completion.bash tonight:
> 
> 	__git_ps1 ()
> 	{
> 		local b="$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)"
> 		if [ -n "$b" ]; then echo "(${b##refs/heads/})"; fi
> 	}
> 	PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__git_ps1)]\$ '
> 
> it works very well...

Yeah, when I first coded it I even looked at making it a bash loadable
to make it perform better but found the prototype to run acceptably,
so never bothered.   If Git does get a --show-ps1 option, people will
still be able to roll their own version to tweak the output format
as you did above.  Hopefully the standard format will work for most
though.