A heads up display for git

Consider sending these changes upstream to contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh in git.git. It already has a lot of toggles for adjusting the prompt. These things you've added could be added as options.

Re: A heads up display for git

#6

Post by leni536 » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 11:41 AM UTC

I use something similar for my bash prompt:

https://github.com/xtrementl/dev-bash-git-ps1

I wonder if this one is any faster. Waiting for a bash prompt in large repos can be frustrating.

Re: A heads up display for git

#7

Post by TsiCClawOfLight » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 11:43 AM UTC

r3bl wrote: post #2

Looks very promising! Thanks, we really missed something like this in Git.

I find the ZSH git extension to work very well.

Re: A heads up display for git

#8

Post by devrelm » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 11:50 AM UTC

noalt wrote: post #4

https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git has had something similar for awhile - very useful!

Push Git is great! I've been looking for a comparable solution for *nix for a while. Zsh's git completion/prompt just showing the branch and dirty state isn't enough.

Re: A heads up display for git

#9

Post by an_ko » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 11:59 AM UTC

I use a modified version of mislav's git prompt https://gist.github.com/mislav/1712320 which is pretty minimal but usually enough for me.

For when I have to wrangle lots of files at once (like during interactive rebase to clean up history before push) I have a git watch alias that shows a high-level overview of changes that refreshes with inotify:

  [alias]
      watch = "!clear;inotifywait --quiet -mr -e modify,move,create,delete --format \"%f %e\" @/.git . | \
  while read file; do \
      clear;\
      git status --short;\
      git --no-pager diff --shortstat;\
  done;"

I leave that running in a visible terminal window. It's more verbose than a prompt and reduces the need for constant git status sanity-checking. Maybe useful for someone.

Re: A heads up display for git

#10

Post by devrelm » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 11:59 AM UTC

TsiCClawOfLight wrote: post #7

r3bl wrote: post #2

Looks very promising! Thanks, we really missed something like this in Git.

I find the ZSH git extension to work very well.

Is that configurable? That is to say, can I change what's printed to the prompt to add more info like # of files added/removed/modified? I looked into it a little bit it looked hard-coded.