Color separation for dirty/clean working directory

djs / clink-gitprompt

A git prompt implementation for cmd.exe implemented as a clink filter

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Color separation for dirty/clean working directory #2

Open samvasko opened 10 years ago

samvasko commented 10 years ago

It would be nice to have different color or some added character do denote dirty working directory.

djs commented 10 years ago

Detecting a dirty working directory is the most resource intensive operation in a git prompt. This script is already slow enough that I don't normally use it. I'm thinking that reworking it to use libgit2 should solve the performance problem. Even on Linux I've found zsh prompts to be unbearably slow with this functionality.

That said, I agree the option should be there, off by default.

piotr-cz commented 9 years ago

Perhaps if the detection of GIT directory would happen as suggested in #1, performance gain could be utilized to check if the directory is dirty/clean.