Subject: Re: git-PS1 bash prompt setting

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:49:31 +0100

Shawn Pearce wrote:

> Sean <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:27:07 +0100 (CET)
>> Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> 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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