git-prompt - Minimal Git prompt

• Shows only the essentials to keep noise down to a minimum.
• Colors for quick assesment of the situation.
• Calls only one external command (git status --porcelain=v2 --branch)
• Go and Python versions work with any shell that can call commands in a prompt.

There are four different implementations with identical output:

• git-prompt.go - Go version (must be compiled before use.)
• git_prompt.py - Python version
• git-prompt.sh - Bash function
• git_prompt.fish - Fish function

Installing

Compiling the Go version::

go build git-prompt.go

Then copy git-prompt to somewhere in your path and add this to the PS1 variable in your .bashrc / .zsh or other config file:

$(git-prompt)

Here's what I use:

PS1='\u@\h:\w $(git-prompt)> '

Example Output

[main]        # At main branch with clean repository.
[main *]      # Uncommited changes.
[main ↑]      # One or more commits ahead of remote.
[main *?]     # Changes and untracked files.
[main *!]     # Unmerged conflict.
[:initial]    # New git repository with no commits yet.

Branch Name

main      Branch name.
:f9a02c   Detached head. (First 6 characters of commit hash.)
:initial  Initialized repository with nothing commited yet.

Status Flags

*  Repository has uncommited changes.
?  There are untracked files.
!  There are conflicts.
↑  Local repository is ahead of remote by >= 1 commit.
↓  Local repository is behind remote by >= 1 commit.
↕  Local repository has diverged from remote.
    (It's both ahead and behind.)

Colors

Green : Working directory is clean but may be out of sync with remote.

Yellow : There are changed or untracked files.

Red : There are conflicts that need to be resolved.

License

MIT license

Contact

Ole Martin Bjorndalen - [email protected]