Help stop yourself from working with the wrong cobzr branch

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 2013-03-11 22:12, Gary Poster wrote:
> Hi.  Francesco Banconi, on the Yellow squad, wanted to keep from
> doing work in the wrong cobzr branch.  He came up with the
> following snippet to add your cobzr branch to the prompt.  He warns
> that it is not very efficient, but works for him.
> 
> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/5605451/
> 
> I thought it was worth sharing beyond the people looking at IRC at
> that instant, so here it is.  Enjoy and/or suggest improvements as
> desired!
> 
> Gary
> 

If you are interested in this sort of thing, I wrote this a long time ago:
https://code.launchpad.net/~jameinel/+junk/my_nick

It is a fairly small C++ program that just inspects the bzr metadata
and extracts the branch name. It works with cobzr, lightweight
checkouts, normal branches, and colocated branches (introduced in
bzr-2.5).

I use it as:
export PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\[\033[01;35m\]\h
\[\033[32m\]\w\$(~/bin/my_nick)\n\[\033[00m\]\$ "

The code itself handles whether to include the {} around the branch nick.

John
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