On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:56:37PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 08/03/2010 12:53 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > correct, git will share objects between branches, so by storing in different > > directories you'll loose that advantage. > > > > I've got a shell prompt that shows me the branch name whenever I enter a git > > directory so I don't have to worry about committing to the wrong branch. > > For those wondering how, > > http://blog.vagmim.com/2009/04/git-branch-on-command-prompt.html This is pretty primitive implementation (do you really want to call python from $PS1? ;-) The git package contains the /etc/bash_completion.d/git file where is defined function __git_ps1() which provides more usable strings (it's able to detect if you are rebasing, bisecting, merging, ...) and allows to use formatting for the string: $ echo $(__git_ps1 "git PS1 is: %s") git PS1 is: master For example I use PS1='\h:\w\[\033[0;32m\]\$\[\033[0m\] ' PROMPT_COMMAND='printf "%*s\r" "$(($COLUMNS + 11))" "^[[33m$(__git_ps1 ":%s")^[(B^[[m"' so I have "hostname:dirname$" on left side and ":branch" on right (the branch name is yellow and '$' at the end of dirname is green:-) Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
