Re: [PATCH 1/1] status: display "doing what" information in git status

[Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:48:52AM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Pierre Habouzit venit, vidit, dixit 06.05.2011 01:26:
> > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 01:06:45AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> >> Heya,
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 23:48, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
> >>> This provides the same information as the git bash prompt about the
> >>> current operation that is going on: rebase, merge, am, cherry-pick or
> >>> bisect.
> >>
> >> Can you show how this will look like?
> > 
> > Sure, it adds a line on the top with the same color as "not on any
> > branch" iff there is an ongoing operation.
> > 
> > Of course in this setup it makes no sense since my shell shows it
> > already, but I'm frustrated when I use git on a remote machine where I
> > don't have zsh installed or configured, and at work many people would
> > like to know where they left stuff before they grabbed coffee and talked
> > for 1h instead of taking 5 minutes ;)
> 
> I think this is useful and nice in the compactified version suggested by
> Junio. Be prepared for someone requesting it with "status -s -b" :)

Well, I've written the logic, it's easy to use :P

> What became of the colouring of the git-prompt, btw? I see you're using
> some, and I remember a stalled effort to have this in our shipped
> completion. Do have something shareable in that respect?

My git prompt predates the bash one, it's here
http://madism.org/~madcoder/dotfiles/config/zsh/60_prompt you're
free to do what you want with that.

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