Am Tue, 3 Aug 2010 11:44:02 +0200 schrieb Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 Don't know why, but recently, that shows me "master" in any folder, even when there is no git repository, so I switched my PS1 to something similar from above: function bash_git_branch { git branch 2> /dev/null | grep \* | awk '{print $2}' } export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w\[\033[31m\] $(bash_git_branch)\[\033[01;34m\]\$\[\033[00m\] ' So no need to call python, if awk is enought :) Host and username are green, directory blue and branch red now. Thomas -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel