On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:54:00 -0500 Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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... Yeah, when I first coded it I even looked at making it a bash loadable to make it perform better but found the prototype to run acceptably, so never bothered. If Git does get a --show-ps1 option, people will still be able to roll their own version to tweak the output format as you did above. Hopefully the standard format will work for most though. Sean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html