Re: [PATCH 4/10] Add current branch in PS1 support to git-completion.bash.

From: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date: Nov 27, 2006, 15:31 UTC
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP02E79ADEE48804655B6FC8AEE60@CEZ.ICE>
In-Reply-To: <20061127084128.GD19745@spearce.org>

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:41:28 -0500 "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> Many users want to display the current branch name of the current git
> repository as part of their PS1 prompt, much as their PS1 prompt might
> also display the current working directory name.
> 
> We don't force our own PS1 onto the user.  Instead we let them craft
> their own PS1 string and offer them the function __git_ps1 which they
> can invoke to obtain either "" (when not in a git repository) or
> "(%s)" where %s is the name of the current branch, as read from HEAD,
> with the leading refs/heads/ removed.

Suppose it doesn't hurt to include support for this in git completion scripts. It doesn't look like __git_ps1 is a proper name though, perhaps __git_branch or __git_current_branch would be better?