What is?

sparseline is a low resource alternative to the powerline options out there. What this means is that it only makes subtle augmentations to your prompt with a focus on git repos. Since sparseline does not invoke git, it's limited by the contents of the .git directory.

Features

• this is prefixed to PS1: « remote/branch#truncated_hash »
• The "truncated_hash" is replaced with local tag when applicable.
• Pure bash, does not invoke git.

Example

« origin/master#77f6ff4 » prepends.

How it looks on my machine: ● origin/master#345f2dbramos@saturn ~/Documents/Development/sparse-lie

Usage

Simply source the file from the appropriate bash config file:

source /path/to/sparseline

Please note that sparse-line is meant to affect your PS1 only when within a git repository.

thoughts

• What about defining vars?

do

• switch for turning off color
• switch for no-special symbols

critique

• osse@freenode#git: I think it might be a bit naïve. For example the file refs/heads/somebranch doesn't necessarily exist even when the branch does
• lupine@freenode#git: some refs are stored in .git/packed-refs and so grepping refs/* is not enough; Not sure actually, it makes sense that local branches aren't packed that way
• ikke git gc will pack local branches

more

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