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Elijah Newren afda36dbf3 git-prompt: include sparsity state as well
git-prompt includes the current branch, a bunch of single character
mini-state displayers, and some much longer in-progress state
notifications.  The current branch is always shown.  The single
character mini-state displayers are all off by default (they are not
self explanatory) but each has an environment variable for turning it
on.  The in-progress state notifications provide no configuration
options for turning them off, and can be up to 15 characters long (e.g.
"|REBASE (12/18)" or "|CHERRY-PICKING").

The single character mini-state tends to be used for things like "Do you
have any stashes in refs/stash?" or "Are you ahead or behind of
upstream?".  These are things which users can take advantage of but do
not affect most normal git operations.  The in-progress states, by
contrast, suggest the user needs to interact differently and may also
prevent some normal operations from succeeding (e.g. git switch may show
an error instead of switching branches).

Sparsity is like the in-progress states in that it suggests a
fundamental different interaction with the repository (many of the files
from the repository are not present in your working copy!).  A few
commits ago added sparsity information to wt_longstatus_print_state(),
grouping it with other in-progress state displays.  We do similarly here
with the prompt and show the extra state, by default, with an extra
    |SPARSE
This state can be present simultaneously with the in-progress states, in
which case it will appear before the other states; for example,
    (branchname|SPARSE|REBASE 6/10)

The reason for showing the "|SPARSE" substring before other states is to
emphasize those other states.  Sparsity is probably not going to change
much within a repository, while temporary operations will.  So we want
the state changes related to temporary operations to be listed last, to
make them appear closer to where the user types and make them more
likely to be noticed.

The fact that sparsity isn't just cached metadata or additional
information is what leads us to show it more similarly to the
in-progress states, but the fact that sparsity is not transient like the
in-progress states might cause some users to want an abbreviated
notification of sparsity state or perhaps even be able to turn it off.
Allow GIT_PS1_COMPRESSSPARSESTATE to be set to request that it be
shortened to a single character ('?'), and GIT_PS1_OMITSPARSESTATE to be
set to request that sparsity state be omitted from the prompt entirely.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-06-22 09:29:59 -07:00
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buildsystems msvc: accommodate for vcpkg's upgrade to OpenSSL v1.1.x 2020-01-16 12:18:23 -08:00
coccinelle Merge branch 'jk/remove-sha1-to-hex' 2019-12-01 09:04:36 -08:00
completion git-prompt: include sparsity state as well 2020-06-22 09:29:59 -07:00
contacts git-contacts: also recognise "Reported-by:" 2017-07-27 09:42:55 -07:00
credential contrib/credential/netrc: work outside a repo 2019-12-20 12:40:52 -08:00
diff-highlight diff-highlight: fix a whitespace nit 2019-10-15 14:08:37 +09:00
emacs git{,-blame}.el: remove old bitrotting Emacs code 2018-04-16 17:25:49 +09:00
examples Merge branch 'bw/c-plus-plus' into ds/lazy-load-trees 2018-04-11 10:46:32 +09:00
fast-import import-tars: ignore the global PAX header 2020-03-24 14:39:47 -07:00
git-jump contrib/git-jump/git-jump: jump to exact location 2018-06-22 12:59:02 -07:00
git-shell-commands
hg-to-git hg-to-git: make it compatible with both python3 and python2 2019-09-18 12:03:05 -07:00
hooks multimail: fix a few simple spelling errors 2019-11-10 16:00:55 +09:00
long-running-filter
mw-to-git Fix spelling errors in no-longer-updated-from-upstream modules 2019-11-10 16:00:55 +09:00
persistent-https docs/config: mention protocol implications of url.insteadOf 2017-06-01 10:07:10 +09:00
remote-helpers contrib: git-remote-{bzr,hg} placeholders don't need Python 2017-03-03 11:09:34 -08:00
stats
subtree subtree: fix build with AsciiDoctor 2 2020-04-08 12:10:36 -07:00
svn-fe Fix spelling errors in messages shown to users 2019-11-10 16:00:54 +09:00
thunderbird-patch-inline
update-unicode unicode_width.h: rename to use dash in file name 2018-04-11 18:11:00 +09:00
vscode vscode: let cSpell work on commit messages, too 2018-07-30 13:14:39 -07:00
workdir git-new-workdir: mark script as LF-only 2017-05-10 13:32:50 +09:00
coverage-diff.sh contrib: add coverage-diff script 2018-10-10 10:11:35 +09:00
git-resurrect.sh Merge branch 'jc/bs-t-is-not-a-tab-for-sed' 2017-04-16 23:29:29 -07:00
README
remotes2config.sh
rerere-train.sh contrib/rerere-train: optionally overwrite existing resolutions 2017-07-26 13:38:48 -07:00

Contributed Software

Although these pieces are available as part of the official git
source tree, they are in somewhat different status.  The
intention is to keep interesting tools around git here, maybe
even experimental ones, to give users an easier access to them,
and to give tools wider exposure, so that they can be improved
faster.

I am not expecting to touch these myself that much.  As far as
my day-to-day operation is concerned, these subdirectories are
owned by their respective primary authors.  I am willing to help
if users of these components and the contrib/ subtree "owners"
have technical/design issues to resolve, but the initiative to
fix and/or enhance things _must_ be on the side of the subtree
owners.  IOW, I won't be actively looking for bugs and rooms for
enhancements in them as the git maintainer -- I may only do so
just as one of the users when I want to scratch my own itch.  If
you have patches to things in contrib/ area, the patch should be
first sent to the primary author, and then the primary author
should ack and forward it to me (git pull request is nicer).
This is the same way as how I have been treating gitk, and to a
lesser degree various foreign SCM interfaces, so you know the
drill.

I expect that things that start their life in the contrib/ area
to graduate out of contrib/ once they mature, either by becoming
projects on their own, or moving to the toplevel directory.  On
the other hand, I expect I'll be proposing removal of disused
and inactive ones from time to time.

If you have new things to add to this area, please first propose
it on the git mailing list, and after a list discussion proves
there are some general interests (it does not have to be a
list-wide consensus for a tool targeted to a relatively narrow
audience -- for example I do not work with projects whose
upstream is svn, so I have no use for git-svn myself, but it is
of general interest for people who need to interoperate with SVN
repositories in a way git-svn works better than git-svnimport),
submit a patch to create a subdirectory of contrib/ and put your
stuff there.

-jc