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Re: [PATCH v5] git-prompt: make colourization consistent

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 6, 2022, 16:29 UTC
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Joakim Petersen <joak-pet@online.no> writes:
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> The short upstream state indicator inherits the colour of the last short
> state indicator before it (if there is one), and the sparsity state
> indicator inherits this colour as well. Make the colourization of these
> state indicators consistent by making all colourized indicators clear
> their own colour.
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> As of 0ec7c23cdc6 (git-prompt: make upstream state indicator location
> consistent, 2022-02-27), colourization in the output of __git_ps1 has
> changed such that the short upstream state indicator inherits the colour
> of the last short state indicator before it (if there is one), while
> before this change it was white/the default text colour. Some examples
> to illustrate this behaviour (assuming all indicators are enabled and
> colourization is on):
>  * If there is something in the stash, both the '$' and the short
>    upstream state indicator following it will be blue.
>  * If the local tree has new, untracked files and there is nothing in
>    the stash, both the '%' and the    short upstream state indicator
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>    will be red.
>  * If all local changes are added to the index and the stash is empty,
>    both the '+' and the short upstream state indicator following it will
>    be green.
>  * If the local tree is clean and there is nothing in the stash, the
>    short upstream state indicator will be white/${default text colour}.
>
> This appears to be an unintended side-effect of the change, and makes
> little sense semantically (e.g. why is it bad to be in sync with
> upstream when you have uncommitted local changes?). The cause of the
> change is that previously, the short upstream state indicator appeared
> immediately after the rebase/revert/bisect/merge state indicator (note
> the position of $p in $gitstring):
>
> 	local f="$h$w$i$s$u"
> 	local gitstring="$c$b${f:+$z$f}${sparse}$r$p"
> 	
> Said indicator is prepended with the clear colour code, and the short
> upstream state indicator is thus also uncoloured. Now, the short
> upstream state indicator follows the sequence of colourized indicators,
> without any clearing of colour (again note the position of $p, now in
> $f):
>
> 	local f="$h$w$i$s$u$p"
> 	local gitstring="$c$b${f:+$z$f}${sparse}$r${upstream}"
>
> If the user is in a sparse checkout, the sparsity state indicator
> follows a similar pattern to the short upstream state indicator.
> However, clearing colour of the colourized indicators changes how the
> sparsity state indicator is colourized , as it currently inherits (and
> before the change referenced also inherited) the colour of the last
> short state indicator before it. Reading the commit message of the
> change that introduced the sparsity state indicator, afda36dbf3b
> (git-prompt: include sparsity state as well, 2020-06-21), it appears
> this colourization also was unintended, so clearing the colour for said
> indicator further increases consistency.

Here, after explaining how bad the current situation is, like the above, is a good place to say what we do, i.e. "teach indicators to clear after themselves".

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> Colouring of $c was made dependent on it not being empty, as it is no
> longer being used to colour the branch name. Removal of $b's prefix was
> moved to before the colourization so it gets cleared properly now that
> colour codes are inserted into it.
>
> Due to colour clearing being moved into the variables for each coloured
> indicator, the tests for the coloured Bash prompt had to be changed:
>  * All colour tests now have the colour codes around the expected
>    content of the expanded $__git_ps1_branch_name variable instead of
>    the unexpanded variable in the string.
>  * The test with two indicators had a clear-colour code inserted after
>    the symbol for the first indicator, since all indicators clear their
>    own colours now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joakim Petersen <joak-pet@online.no>
> ---
Nicely written.
Will queue.
Thanks.
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  3. Joakim PetersenJun 1, 2022
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 1, 2022
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  9. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2022
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  20. git-prompt: make colourization consistentJoakim Petersen, Jun 4, 2022
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  22. Joakim PetersenJun 4, 2022
  23. git-prompt: make colourization consistentJoakim Petersen, Jun 4, 2022
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  31. git-prompt: make colourization consistentJoakim Petersen, Jun 6, 2022
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  39. git-prompt: make colouring consistentJoakim Petersen, Jun 9, 2022
  40. git-prompt: fix expansion of branch colour codesJoakim Petersen, Jun 9, 2022
  41. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2022
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