# git status "short circuit"? 2 messages from 2009-02-13 to 2009-02-13. Participants: Jordi Bunster, Shawn O. Pearce. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17778 ## Jordi Bunster, 2009-02-13 17:34 Subject: git status "short circuit"? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/BF509531-D8A4-4F5F-894F-735252AA4C26%40bunster.org ``` I have a prompt snippet that shows me if there's something staged/ changed/untracked (as different characters). It parses the output of git status. Since I don't really need to know *all* that is staged/dirty/untracked, I was wondering if there's something faster I could use. Something that stops at the first occurrence of each category, perhaps. Any ideas? P.S.: I'm not subscribed, please Cc. -- Jordi ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2009-02-13 17:36 Subject: Re: git status "short circuit"? Message-ID: <20090213173615.GA30949@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090213173615.GA30949%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: ``` Jordi Bunster wrote: > I have a prompt snippet that shows me if there's something staged/ > changed/untracked (as different characters). > > It parses the output of git status. Since I don't really need to know > *all* that is staged/dirty/untracked, I was wondering if there's > something faster I could use. Something that stops at the first > occurrence of each category, perhaps. > > Any ideas? Latest version of the bash completion package has a dirty prompt setting you can enable. Grab it out of the git repository and try it out. -- Shawn. ```