On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> I think it would actually be a somewhat interesting feature if it
>> interacted with GIT_PS1_SHOW*. If you use these settings (I personally
>> use SHOWDIRTYSTATE but not SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES), the prompt hangs while
>> __git_ps1 runs git-status. It should be possible to run a git-status
>> process in the background when entering a repository, and displaying
>> some marker ('??' maybe) in the prompt instead of the dirty-state info
>> until git-status has finished.
>
> This is somewhat interesting.
>
> Perhaps we can introduce a helper binary that does what __git_ps1()
> does, with a --timeout=500ms option to say "I dunno (yet)", and keep
> priming the well in the background when it takes more than the
> specified amount of time?
That would be nice. My fork-fu is weak, so I cheated and relied on
kill/timeout instead.
I have had this code below in my zsh git prompt (based on oh-my-zsh)
for more than a year. It uses $(timeout) to kill the status command
if it does not complete in 1 second. It's dumb in several ways, but
it does show me four different flags fairly reliably indicating
whether I have changed files, untracked files, clean workdir, or I
timed out trying to find out.
git_dirty_timeout () {
#-- Modified files
xx=$(timeout 1s git status -s $@ 2> /dev/null)
test $? -eq 124 && return 124
test -n ${xx} && return 50
#-- Untracked files (only)
xx=$(timeout 1s git status -s -uno $@ 2> /dev/null)
test $? -eq 124 && return 124
test -n ${xx} && return 51
return 0
}
parse_git_dirty () {
git_dirty_timeout
case "$?" in
'50') echo "$ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY" ;;
'51') echo "$ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_UNTRACKED" ;;
'124') echo "$ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_TIMEOUT" ;;
*) echo "[$?]$ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN" ;;
esac
}
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