[Open discussion on idea] Git shell prompt daemon

[Tim Niemueller]

Am 30.03.2014 15:24, schrieb Lukky513:
> Hi, I'm Łukasz Raszka - also applying for the very same project. I
> wanted to address some of the concerns.
> 
>> The preferred way for me is "something from bashrc/etc."
>> However, I don't know how to change prompt dynamically when user
>> doesn't run any commands/press keys.
> IIRC, zsh has some facilities allowing it to be done; I don't think it'd
> be a good idea, though. Personally, I just like the reactive prompt
> better than proactive one - it's not that good to stop in the middle of
> typing because something changed - especially in case such as this, when
> daemon actions ought to be passive in their nature (providing status
> information rather than actually doing anything). And there's always the
> line feed if someone wants updated info.

This sounds like looking into screen's feature to have a persistent
status bar at the bottom. It might seem we would want something like
this. What annoys me often, for example, is that when I switch branches
in one directory it is reflected in another terminal only after the
prompt is re-drawn, e.g. on "Enter" or the next command.

I still find the project under-specified and too open ended. I'm missing
a draft of what, how, and when.

  Tim