Mercurial,Git and SVN branch in shell prompt
March 7, 2011
It’s usual deal with some branches if your project is big, and sometimes could be pretty dangerous changing, commiting and merging between branches, in our actual project we have three: default, stable and experimental. Last week I was commiting to default and I had to resolve a bug on stable, merge it on default, hours after merge the default changes to stable, in order to make a new production release, and merge also with experimental with their changes… so I had to be very careful… I though it were so cool have the branch in the shell prompt, and seems more people thinks like me, I discovered http://sjl.bitbucket.org/hg-prompt/ it doesn’t only show the branch, also the status, bookmarks and more… really useful.
There are also for Git and SVN:
http://hocuspokus.net/2009/07/add-git-and-svn-branch-to-bash-prompt/
