From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:49:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git-PS1 bash prompt setting
Message-ID: <eke571$ng2$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061127065400.GA19174@spearce.org>

Shawn Pearce wrote:

> Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:27:07 +0100 (CET)
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> But there really is no good place to put it: most commands need a git 
>>> repository, and those which do not, are inappropriate to put an option 
>>> "--show-ps1" into. Except maybe repo-config. Thoughts?
>> 
>> What about just making it an option to the git wrapper?
> 
> 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...

Perhaps, as it was proposed somewhere else in this thread, instead of
\u@\h use $(git repo-config --get user.email)?

And I would add \!: at the beginning of prompt, but that might be
just me.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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