PROMPT with git branch

[Marvin Colgin]

I'm looking to duplicate some of the functionality that my other programmer friends utilize in TCC.

Specifically, the ability to output the current git-branch of the directory that I'm in.

Not every directory will be a git directory, and I would want any directory under the local repo to report the branch.

Anyone accomplished this?

 

[samintz]

I am not familiar with git. How do you get the information you are interested in? I assume there is a git command that returns that information.

Assuming you have a function that returns the text you want, lets call it @gitbranch, you could create a PROMPT that looks like this:

PROMPT [%@if[%@gitbranch[].==.,,(%@gitbranch[]) ]$P]$s

You could also do something similar with TITLEPROMPT to update the Tab text or console window title.

Assuming the command to get the branch is "git branch --list" then a simple @gitbranch could be:

function gitbranch=`%@execstr[git branch --list]`

If the command returns data that needs to be parsed, then you can use @WORD and/or have @execstr return a specific line of the output.