Hi Jan, On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:36:38PM +0100, Jan Stolarek wrote:
I've been reading the ghc-devs list for quite some time now and I noticed that it often happens that one of the developers pushes the changes to the ghc.git repo but forgets to push the corresponding changes to the testsuite, which results in people trying to figure out why their validation fails.
I quite like having the shell prompt indicating if there're uncommited changes. A "clean" repo just displays the branch name: dan@machine ~/.../somePath [BranchName]> With uncommited changes: dan@machine ~/.../somePath [BranchName *]> Something stashed: dan@machine ~/.../somePath [BranchName $]> Untracked files: dan@machine ~/.../somePath [BranchName %]> The prompt relevant settings for the bash shell (.bashrc) are: # which kind of state should be displayed export GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=1 export GIT_PS1_SHOWSTASHSTATE=1 export GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=1 # the prompt export PS1='\u@\h \w$(__git_ps1 " [%s]")> ' The git relevant part of the prompt is: $(__git_ps1 " [%s]") Greetings, Daniel