How to show full branch name? #481

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1. romkatv commented on Dec 3, 2025

   

   romkatv

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   1 is a good option, and so is 3.
2. chiphogg commented on Dec 3, 2025

   

   chiphogg

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   Thank you!

   Is (1) even an option, if the contents of where get unconditionally clobbered by the truncation code? I assume not --- so, therefore, I assume that (3) is the way to go.

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   By the way, the act of choosing (3) means that also doing (2) would be a very small marginal effort. So, I'll probably put up a PR as well after I fork it. Given the status of this repo, I have no expectation that it will be merged... but, there's an outside chance that the PR ends up being both simple and desirable enough that you might merge it anyway.

   And if not, then the PR will end up linked to this issue, so others who want this functionality will be able to stumble upon it.
3. chiphogg

   added a commit that references this issue on Dec 4, 2025

   Permit opting out of branch name truncation

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   This issue will close once commit 73e65fa is merged into the 'master' branch.

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4. romkatv commented on Dec 4, 2025

   

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   For (1), you can start with this:

   source ~/gitstatus/gitstatus.plugin.sh
   
   function my_set_prompt() {
     PS1='\w'
   
     if gitstatus_query && [[ "$VCS_STATUS_RESULT" == ok-sync ]]; then
       if [[ -n "$VCS_STATUS_LOCAL_BRANCH" ]]; then
         PS1+=" ${VCS_STATUS_LOCAL_BRANCH//\\/\\\\}"  # escape backslash
       else
         PS1+=" @${VCS_STATUS_COMMIT//\\/\\\\}"       # escape backslash
       fi
       (( VCS_STATUS_HAS_STAGED"    )) && PS1+='+'
       (( VCS_STATUS_HAS_UNSTAGED"  )) && PS1+='!'
       (( VCS_STATUS_HAS_UNTRACKED" )) && PS1+='?'
     fi
   
     PS1+='\n\$ '
   
     shopt -u promptvars  # disable expansion of '$(...)' and the like
   }
   
   gitstatus_stop && gitstatus_start
   PROMPT_COMMAND=my_set_prompt

   Modify my_set_prompt as you like.
5. chiphogg commented on Dec 7, 2025

   

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   Thanks!

   I ended up creating #483, since I wanted to have the option to have a fully default prompt (apart from the abbreviation, of course). I've been using it for a few days, and it works great.

   The only downside I see to this approach is that it introduces a new discrepancy between the features for bash and zsh. My understanding is that they were already not at feature parity, so maybe that's OK, but I'll let you be the judge. Options I can see are:

   1. Reject the PR.
   2. Accept the PR; live with bash having a config option that zsh does not.
   3. Accept the PR after it supports zsh; move documentation outside of the bash section to somewhere more general.

   I'd have been happy to add zsh support, but I don't use zsh so it's not easy for me to test it.