I am using Powerlevel10K these days. It has a nifty prompt for getting current Git status.
The tool for this is:
The other day I wanted to wrap my head around reading and understanding it entirely and I found this answer on StackOverflow:
The answer was lifted from the documentation of: romkatv/gitstatus.
| segment | meaning |
|---|---|
master |
current branch |
#v1 |
HEAD is tagged with v1; not shown when on a branch |
@5fc6fca4 |
current commit; not shown when on a branch or tag |
⇣1 |
local branch is behind the remote by 1 commit |
⇡2 |
local branch is ahead of the remote by 2 commits |
⇠3 |
local branch is behind the push remote by 3 commits |
⇢4 |
local branch is ahead of the push remote by 4 commits |
*5 |
there are 5 stashes |
merge |
merge is in progress (could be some other action) |
~6 |
there are 6 merge conflicts |
+7 |
there are 7 staged changes |
!8 |
there are 8 unstaged changes |
?9 |
there are 9 untracked files |