# [PATCH] git prompt: Use toplevel to find untracked files.

1 messages from 2015-03-13 to 2015-03-13. Participants: Cody A Taylor.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/38789

## Cody A Taylor, 2015-03-13 01:45

Subject: [PATCH] git prompt: Use toplevel to find untracked files.
Message-ID: <20150313014332.11094.18357@catuvm>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20150313014332.11094.18357%40catuvm

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>From 3e4e22e93bf07355b40ba0abcb3a15c4941cfee7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cody A Taylor <codemister99@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:36:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] git prompt: Use toplevel to find untracked files.

The __git_ps1() prompt function would not show an untracked
state when the current working directory was not a parent of
the untracked file.

Signed-off-by: Cody A Taylor <codemister99@yahoo.com>
---
 contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh b/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
index 214e859f99e7..f0d8a2669236 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh
@@ -487,7 +487,8 @@ __git_ps1 ()
 
 		if [ -n "${GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES-}" ] &&
 		   [ "$(git config --bool bash.showUntrackedFiles)" != "false" ] &&
-		   git ls-files --others --exclude-standard --error-unmatch -- '*' >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+		   git ls-files --others --exclude-standard --error-unmatch -- \
+		     "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/*" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
 		then
 			u="%${ZSH_VERSION+%}"
 		fi
-- 
2.3.2

```