git branch help?

Ben Boeckel mathstuf at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 22:49:27 UTC 2010


Björn Persson <bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
>> Would it be nice to stick this customization into fedora-packager, or
>> would it just confuse/surprise people?
> 
> Is it fast enough to not delay the prompt noticeably even on old computers?

I use zsh's vcs_info and the only one I've found (out of git, hg, darcs,
svn, and cvs) that doesn't feel like a no-op is bzr support.

> What's the worst thing that could happen if it were to break? If Git were to 
> enter an infinite loop for example, would it render my shell useless?

Yes, it would. The shell will wait until the process gets back (hence my
non-support of bzr in my zsh config).

> Björn Persson

--Ben



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