Re: StGit-enabled bash-prompt

From: Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk>
Date: Oct 27, 2006, 10:01 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610270957020.9123@dildano.hawaga.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200610262317.30209.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> Of course you will read and understand this code. I don't know how good an 
> idea it is to use the DEBUG trap this way.

I set my prompt without using it, with something approximating this being defined in my .bash_profile. I think the use of ' instead of " causes evaluation of __prompt_githead be delayed until the prompt is displayed.

  PS1='$(__prompt_githead) '$PS1

  __prompt_githead() {
  PS_GIT=$(git-symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null) || exit
  echo -n " $(basename $PS_GIT)" 
  }