romkatv/gitstatus
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Git status for Bash and Zsh prompt
7 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2019-03-03 · latest 2026-06-19
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…already done this for a git repo in my current dir. I originally rolled my own but eventually found https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus which is much faster. So, along with background fetches/pushes, at any point I can tell what revision…
comment by duskdozer · 2026-06-19 · in Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi -
I've posted some details explaining why gitstatusd doesn't use inotify in https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/commit/050aaaa04b652e15... . The short version is that the default max_user_watches limit is much too low to be useful for…
comment by romka2 · 2019-04-08 · in Fast Directory Listing on Linux -
The job of gitstatusd is to put Git status in your shell prompt. See screenshot at the top of https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus . This is an amazingly convenient tool. When you are working on chromium, on every command you type…
comment by romka2 · 2019-04-07 · in Fast Directory Listing on Linux -
Take a look at the example: https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus#gitstatusd . Even though this example uses ZSH, it's just for exposition. It launches gitstatusd, writes a request to its stdin, reads the request from stdout and prints it.…
comment by romka2 · 2019-04-01 · in Show HN: A faster implementation of Git status -
…and haven't tried it yet. The reason why this is so much faster seems to mostly be that it uses https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus (by the same author) as a daemon to get git status info. The classical way of running a dozen git commands…
comment by dancek · 2019-03-03 · in Powerlevel10k – a 10x faster fork of Powerlevel9k