Re: [PATCH v2] git prompt: Use toplevel to find untracked files.

Cody A Taylor [off-list ref] writes:

From c861d5cb401110ce7d86b76c1eaa8e89e80f484e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cody A Taylor <redacted>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:36:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] git prompt: Use toplevel to find untracked files.

All of the above four lines are unwanted in the e-mail body.

 * The first line is a separating line to make format-patch output
   look like a mbox file, and does not even belong to this patch.

 * From: line, when you are not relaying somebody else's patch,
   should not be necessary, as long as you set up your MUA correctly
   so that the e-mail shows a correct From: in its header.

 * Date: is the same; unless you are relaying somebody else's patch,
   in which case you might want to preserve the author timestamp,
   the first time _we_ the recipients see your patch matters more,
   which should be available from the e-mail header.

 * Subject: should be in the e-mail header.  Sometimes when sending
   a patch to an ongoing discussion that has its own subject, it is
   handy to be able to override the title with in-body Subject:, but
   this patch submission is not such a case.  The subjects are the
   same in the fourth line in the body (which should be dropped) and
   in the header anyway in this message, so please edit it out.

In short

 (1) If you cannot convince your mailer to show your @yahoo.com
     address on the e-mail header From: line, then having the
     in-body From: line above (i.e. the second line) is OK as a
     workaround.  We however would prefer if you didn't.

 (2) Edit the other three lines out.

The __git_ps1() prompt function would not show an untracked
state when the current working directory was not a parent of
the untracked file.

Good find, and nicely explained.  I wonder if we can add a test
or two to t9903-bash-prompt.sh?

The patch itself makes sense.  Thanks.

Hi,

Quoting Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]:

Cody A Taylor [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

The __git_ps1() prompt function would not show an untracked
state when the current working directory was not a parent of
the untracked file.

Good find, and nicely explained.

Somehow I had a hard time making sense out of "when the current working
directory was not a parent of the untracked file".  Perhaps "when the
untracked files are outside of the current working directory" would be
easier to grok?

I wonder if we can add a test
or two to t9903-bash-prompt.sh?

This test fails without the patch in question and succeeds with it.

-- 8< --

diff --git a/t/t9903-bash-prompt.sh b/t/t9903-bash-prompt.sh
index 51ecd3e..3d1a95f 100755
--- a/t/t9903-bash-prompt.sh
+++ b/t/t9903-bash-prompt.sh

@@ -397,6 +397,16 @@ test_expect_success 'prompt - untracked files status indicator - untracked files
 	test_cmp expected "$actual"
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'prompt - untracked files status indicator - untracked files outside cwd' '
+	printf " (master %%)" >expected &&
+	(
+		cd ignored_dir &&
+		GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=y &&
+		__git_ps1 >"$actual"
+	) &&
+	test_cmp expected "$actual"
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'prompt - untracked files status indicator - shell variable unset with config disabled' '
 	printf " (master)" >expected &&
 	test_config bash.showUntrackedFiles false &&