Re: [PATCH] Add git-branches-script

* Amos Waterland [off-list ref] [2005-08-16 00:48]:

For people whose workflow involves switching back and forth between a
lot of branches, it can be really helpful to be able to quickly tell
which branch you are on and which ones are available.  This patch
introduces a small script that when invoked as `git branches' prints a
list of available branches with a star in front of the one you are on:

 $ cd linux-2.6/
 $ git checkout -b ppc64-cleanups
 $ git checkout -b ppc64-new-devel
 $ git checkout -b ppc64-all-merge
 $ git branches
   master
 * ppc64-all-merge
   ppc64-cleanups
   ppc64-new-devel

Some might find it useful to put Amos' script in a bash function and
then put the current branch in the prompt. What I did was to put this
function in my .bashrc:

gitbranch () {
	. git-sh-setup-script &&
	branch=$(basename $(readlink $GIT_DIR/HEAD)) &&
	echo -n "" $branch ""
}

Then I modified my bash prompt:

export PS1='\[\033[1;31m\]\j$(gitbranch)[\w]\$ \[\033[0m\]'
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^

Now, if my current dir is not a git repo, I have my regular prompt. As
soon as I cd into a git repo, I get the current branch in the prompt, as
follows:

0[~]$ cd gitrepo
0 master [~/gitrepo]$ git checkout branch1
0 branch1 [~/gitrepo]$ cd ..
0[~]$

-- 
Miguel Bazdresch
http://thewizardstower.org/