Comments on: Updated technique for seeing git and directory status in bash prompt

By: bochecha

bochecha — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:21:15 +0000

> « I wonder sometimes why we don’t do these sorts of tips and tricks on the Fedora wiki. »

Fixed

By: quaid

quaid — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:59:10 +0000

Great! Thanks for the additional tips.

I wonder sometimes why we don’t do these sorts of tips and tricks on the Fedora wiki. It’s not much harder to do. Maybe we don’t yet think of it as an end-user wiki with useful how-to content?

I wonder this even while I perpetuate the problem …

By: bochecha

bochecha — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:41:24 +0000

You know you want to try out this:
export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=true
export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=true
PS1=’[\u@\h \W]$(__git_ps1 ” (%s)”)\\$ ‘

This will show you that there are uncommitted/untracked files as well as the current branch

I had blogged about it earlier:
http://blog.fedora-fr.org/bochecha/post/2009/08/A-git-aware-prompt-(part2)

By: quaid

quaid — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:16:52 +0000

When I pointed tmz at the post, he had one more comment:

19:04 < tmz> quaid: Cool.  Glad it helped.  (Another place to point
             people might be
             https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Git_Quickref#Display_current_branch_in_bash)
...
19:04 < tmz> quaid: If you have bash-completion installed, there's not
             even a need to copy the completion script.