Tag names

[jordi-adell]

I added this code to get tag names in case you checkout a specific tag. Instead of just writing detached* as branch name.

You might want to include it the your main repo. I did not tested it extensively, but I will be actively using this fix from now on and will maintain it if necessary.

[jordi-adell]

I have been using this patch for months now, with several repositories, several machines, and a variety of versions of Ubuntu and Debian. No bug found, yet.

[jimeh]

Cool, I'll try to have a proper look at this week and merge it in :)

[joeytwiddle]

Thanks jordi, I have been using your code since November and I like it!

But there is one situation where it looks odd: during a rebase. To reproduce:

• Be safe: git checkout -b testing123
• Do git rebase -i HEAD~~
• Change one of the picks to edit, save and quit
• See the prompt telling you that you are now on branch "undefined"!

With this simple fix I changed the undefined back into *detached during a rebase. You are both welcome to use that if you like.

I did also add some lines which detect and display when we are rebasing or merging, but they will be trapped in the office until next Monday. ;)

[joeytwiddle]

Here is how to detect when we are stuck on a rebase, a merge, or a cherry-pick: joeytwiddle@1c87a4b

[jimeh]

@joeytwiddle Very nice :)...

I'll be spending some time on a proper update for git-aware-prompt soon. I personally haven't used the project since about 5 years ago when I switched to zsh. So the goal is to incorporate a lot of these kind of improvements, and make it compatible with both bash and zsh, so I can start using it myself again too.

[jordi-adell]

@joeytwiddle
Good to know that the patch was useful.