Re: [OT] git branches and command prompts

Sorry, TB mangled the formatting.  Hopefully quoting helps. :-(

Jason wrote:
> All,
> 
> if you're like me, you play with a lot of open source code.  A lot of it 
> is now in git repositories.  I frequently forget which branch I'm on in 
> each project, particularly with Android/Cyanogen.  Here's a hack I 
> figured out that helps me out, place it in ~/.bashrc :
> 
> ### begin ####
> PROMPT_COMMAND="echo -n \${PWD};
>    if git branch >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>       echo -n \"(\$(git branch | grep ^* | cut -d ' ' -f 2-))\"
>    fi"
> PS1="\n[\[\033[01;34m\]\u\[\033[00m\]@\h] $ "
> export PROMPT_COMMAND PS1
> ### end ######
> 
> Here's the result:
> 
> /home/jason
> [jason@phantom] $ cd src/foss/git.git
> /home/jason/src/foss/git.git (master)
> [jason@phantom] $ git checkout git_shell_dir_opt
> Switched to branch 'git_shell_dir_opt'
> /home/jason/src/foss/git.git (git_shell_dir_opt)
> [jason@phantom] $
> 
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