Branch name for `gs`

[powelleric]

I was getting some funny output from gs. The branch was always listed as 'branch'. Looking in the function, it seems like the answer is to use the fourth field from cut.

~/manager-dev > gs
# On branch: branch
#
#
➤ Untracked files:
#
#       untracked: [1] metadata.cache
#       untracked: [2] schema.cache
#

Changing line 19 from
echo $branch_name|cut -d ' ' -f3
to:
echo $branch_name|cut -d ' ' -f4
seems to have fixed it.

Seems to make sense because when you parse the first line of git status, the branch name is the fourth column of that line: # On branch master

[shinriyo]

@powelleric really? if I changed echo $branch_name|cut -d ' ' -f4 like your code,
Branch name wasn't shown..

[powelleric]

Thanks for your response, @shinriyo. Great avatar BTW!

Hmm, I wonder if we could have different versions of git or something....

What does it look like for you to do git status | head -1?

Here is what is happening for me.

> git status | head -1
# On branch standalone
> git status | head -1 | cut -d " " -f 3
branch
> git status | head -1 | cut -d " " -f 4
standalone

If it turns out that different git versions are causing this, we could try something like this: git status | head -1 | sed 's/.*branch //'. However, I think Mac uses its own sed by default, not GNU sed and I wonder if the arguments are the same.

[aweibell]

I don't get the hash in front of my output:

➤ git status | head -1
On branch master

That means cut ... -f 3 is correct for my git output.

➤ git --version
git version 2.7.4

[powelleric]

@aweibell I figured it was going to be something along these lines. I can actually observe both behaviors between my Mac and Ubuntu server. (The Mac doesn't have breeze on it yet so I didn't realize this until now.)

I've proposed a solution below that uses fishs internal string function.

Mac

> git --version
git version 2.3.2 (Apple Git-55)
> git status | head -1
On branch develop
> git status | head -1 | string replace --regex '.*On branch ' ''
develop

Ubuntu

> git --version                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
git version 2.13.0
> git status | head -1
# On branch standalone
> git status | head -1 | string replace --regex '.*On branch ' ''
standalone

[bingocaller]

I think this has been resolved by #38; it uses git branch --show-current, which was added in git v2.22.0, AFAIK.
@powelleric can you confirm/deny that gs works for you now?