From: Oswald Buddenhagen Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:51:05 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-prompt: stop manually parsing HEAD with unknown ref formats Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 09:21:53AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: >--- a/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh >+++ b/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh >@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ __git_ps1 () > > local repo_info rev_parse_exit_code > repo_info="$(git rev-parse --git-dir --is-inside-git-dir \ >- --is-bare-repository --is-inside-work-tree \ >+ --is-bare-repository --is-inside-work-tree --show-ref-format \ > --short HEAD 2>/dev/null)" > that makes me wonder whether adding support for `--symbolic-ref HEAD` here would not be the cleaner solution? and why stop there, and not add a few more ps1 would need, like --upstream and --sequencer-state? (though arguably, this overloading of `rev-parse` should be deprecated in favor of a new generalized `query` command, maybe even unified with `var`.)