Hi Ingo, On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:14:15PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i have a tip-curr (shortcut: 'tc') scriptlet to answer the "where I am > amongst 100+ branches" question: > > earth4:~/tip> tc > tip/master 200a86b: Merge branch 'x86/unify-setup' > > which is just a thin wrapper around git-log: > > earth4:~/tip> cat ~/bin/tip/tip-curr > #!/bin/bash > > . ~/bin/tip/tip-lib > > echo "tip/"$(get_current_branch)" "$(git log -1 --pretty=format:"%h: %s") how about displaying the current branch in the command prompt? >From contrib/completion/git-completion.bash: # 4) Consider changing your PS1 to also show the current branch: # PS1='[\u@\h \W$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")]\$ ' # # The argument to __git_ps1 will be displayed only if you # are currently in a git repository. The %s token will be # the name of the current branch. Regards, Gábor -- 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