Re: git-PS1 bash prompt setting

> [branch!repo/relative/path]$ 
> 
> Where "repo" is the basename of the path to the root of your repo.
> An example would look like this:
> 
> [master!linus-2.6/Documentation/vm]$ 
> 
> Cheers,
> Sean
> 
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> BR=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null) || { echo "$@" ; exit ; }
> BR=${BR#refs/heads/}
> REL=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix) 
> REL="${REL//%\/}"
> LOC="${PWD%/$REL}"
> echo "[$BR!${LOC/*\/}${REL:+/$REL}]$ "

> Just a note:
> 
> this doesn't work with bash 3.2. I think they altered the way of
> trimming variables in this version.
> 
> on systems with bash 3.2 installed, i get
> [master!linus-2.6/vm/vm]$ 
> with the example above.
> 
> on systems with bash 3.1, it works properly.

> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:38:02 +0100
> Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de> wrote:
>
>> Just a note:
>> 
>> this doesn't work with bash 3.2. I think they altered the way of
>> trimming variables in this version.
>> 
>> on systems with bash 3.2 installed, i get
>> [master!linus-2.6/vm/vm]$ 
>> with the example above.
>> 
>> on systems with bash 3.1, it works properly.
>
> Sorry bout that, I knew it was a bit fragile.  Was rather
> comical reading Junio's recent message about all the things not
> to do if you want portable shell code and noticing my 6 line script
> did 90% of them ;o)

> On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:38:02 +0100
> Nicolas Vilz <niv@iaglans.de> wrote:
> 
> > Just a note:
> > 
> > this doesn't work with bash 3.2. I think they altered the way of
> > trimming variables in this version.
> > 
> > on systems with bash 3.2 installed, i get
> > [master!linus-2.6/vm/vm]$ 
> > with the example above.
> > 
> > on systems with bash 3.1, it works properly.
> 
> Sorry bout that, I knew it was a bit fragile.  Was rather
> comical reading Junio's recent message about all the things not
> to do if you want portable shell code and noticing my 6 line script
> did 90% of them ;o)  Strange though, I downloaded Bash 3.2
> and gave it a try and didn't see the problem here..
> 
> Wanna try this small change, to see if it helps? :
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> BR=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null) || { echo "$@" ; exit ; }
> BR=${BR#refs/heads/}
> REL=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)
> REL="${REL%\/}"
> LOC="${PWD%/$REL}"
> echo "[$BR!${LOC/*\/}${REL:+/$REL}]$ "
>